Hiroshima marks 80 years since U.S. atomic bombing
The United States dropped the world's first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945, during World War II.
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The United States dropped the world's first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945, during World War II.
Around 80 years after the war, Germany remains littered with unexploded bombs, often uncovered during construction work.
Japan is marking 80 years since the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, during World War II. CBS News foreign correspondent Anna Coren has more details.
A Nazi’s photo album shows top officers at Auschwitz singing, socializing, and lighting a Christmas tree at a time when hundreds of thousands of Jews were killed in the concentration camp.
Explorers have discovered wartime torpedoes among the wreckage of a sunken U.S. destroyer that went down near the Solomon Islands during World War II.
July 16 marks the anniversary of the first atomic bomb test and the first mission to the moon. John Dickerson shares his thoughts on an event that revealed the terrifying, destructive power of human knowledge and another that revealed its daring ambition.
Eighty years after a U.S. airman went missing in World War II, his family has received a token to remember him by.
The Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Teruzuki was discovered more than 2,600 feet below the ocean's surface near the Solomon Islands.
A Japanese torpedo slammed into the USS New Orleans in 1942, tearing off nearly one-third of the ship and killing over 180 crew members.
Three World War II veterans turned a simple museum cookout in Northern California into something they will never forget. CBS News Bay Area's Rick Villaroman shows why their stories made the 4th of July celebration a lot more meaningful
More than 20,000 residents were evacuated Wednesday from Cologne's city center.
Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Charles W. McCook, 23, of Georgetown, Texas, was credited with saving a fellow soldier before his death.
Decades after his death in a POW camp during World War II, Pvt. Bernard Curran was laid to rest.
Karin Prien, post-World War II Germany's first Jewish federal cabinet member, shares her personal story and reflects on her political career as she makes it her mission to confront the rise of antisemitism in Germany and across the globe.
On this Memorial Day, we remember the worst stateside disaster of World War II and the dark cloud of injustice that hung over dozens of Black sailors for the decades that followed. Charlie D'Agata reports on the long fight for equality for the group of service members known as the Port Chicago 50. Charlie D'Agata has the story.
The U.S. and Italy signed a deal to bolster efforts to recover the remains of American soldiers who went missing in action during World War II.
China's Xi Jinping joined Vladimir Putin for a huge Victory Day parade in Moscow, hoping to reassure Russians of their nation's strength as the Ukraine conflict grinds on.
As Russia celebrates its 80-year-old victory over Nazi Germany, Putin wants the world to see that despite the new conflict in Europe, he still has friends in high places.
Ukraine says Russia has launched widespread attacks, calling Putin's declaration of a three-day truce a "farce."
Europe is starting to celebrate the 80-year mark of the end of World War II. CBS News' Ramy Inocencio breaks down what to expect.
May 8 marks 80 years since people across Europe celebrated the Allied victory over Nazi Germany. While the fighting in the Pacific would continue for months, many saw it as the end of six long years of war. A new book tells the story of remarkable American women who helped that victory happen.
An all-Black, all-female World War II unit received the Congressional Gold Medal for improving soldiers' morale with their work sorting mail addressed to those on the frontlines.
A Jewish prisoner at the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau secretly penned a short note and hid it inside a violin he had crafted under harrowing circumstances.
The three men were part of a crew carrying out a low-altitude bombing raid in Burma in August 1943.
A remotely operated camera found surprising relics, including a plane that still had a bomb secured to it.