After World War II, the rise of automobile ownership in the United States played a pivotal role in transforming suburban landscapes and tourism. The newfound accessibility provided by cars allowed ...

During WWII, the U.S. had 93 airfields across the Pacific. Today, just 33 remain — and that’s not enough. New satellite images show jungle being cleared on Tinian, where planes that bombed Hiroshima ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An estimated 35 million Chinese soldiers and civilians died as part of their country's sacrifice as a key Allied power, yet 80 ...

When a U.S.-led armada sailed into Tokyo Bay 80 years ago to accept the Japanese surrender in World War II, it was just 27 days after an atomic bomb killed some 70,000 people in a single blow at ...

From one of the largest World War II incarceration camps, a father wrote, in Japanese, a poem for his newborn daughter. The world is in chaos. And the future is unknown. But she will bring the world ...

It was Thanksgiving in 1946 and the celebration took place as far away as Germany, then in ruins after World War II. The U.S. Women’s Army Corps, stationed in Frankfurt, hosted 30 “wide-eyed” German ...

The Jet Age began in the wake of World War 2, when technology made a massive leap and more fighter aircraft began incorporating jet engines to their design Better tech and design gave way to many of ...