Here’s a collection of excerpts from the special columns of This Month in Fort McCoy history that highlighted history at then-Camp McCoy in September ...
The Potsdam Conference shaped the diplomacy of the end of World War II. And on this day in history, July 17, 1945, following Nazi Germany's surrender in the war, President Harry S. Truman, British ...
On Sept. 2, 1945, the official end of World War II came to pass with Japan’s signing of the Instrument of Surrender aboard ...
Nearly 80 years after a midair collision killed 13 young airmen during World War II training in Garland City, residents of the town are working to ...
It was the one-word headline that the people of Syracuse had wanted to see spread out across the front-page of the Post-Standard for almost four years during World War II. And now, finally, on the ...
Maceo A. Walker was 20 when he was killed in the battle of the Cinquale Canal, a little-remembered, four-day struggle between men of the segregated African American 92nd Division and German forces in ...
New Yorkers shout their joy at hearing reports of Germany's unconditional surrender on May 8, 1945. (Fox Photos/Getty Images) Facts and summary, V-E Day, also written VE Day: V-E Day stands for ...
The horrific human atrocity of World War II ended aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay as Japan formally signed documents of surrender on this day in history, Sept. 2, 1945. The ceremony lasted just ...
The war that had dominated their youth was drawing to a close. The Amsterdam High School class of 1945 yearbook reported that ...