A day of profound global significance — the formal end of World War II — occurred on Sept. 2, 1945, aboard the USS Missouri ...

Gee, who served as a radar operator aboard the South Dakota, called the vessel the most decorated U.S. battleship of World ...

Learn about the major world events and happenings, birthdays, and deaths that took place on September 02. Check what happened ...

A British veteran has spoken about how he witnessed Japan's wartime surrender up close as a 20-year-old sailor. Reg Draper was off Japan's coast on the HMS Duke of York when the captain announced the ...

Today is Tuesday, Sept. 2, the 245th day of 2025. There are 120 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1945, Japan formally surrendered in ceremonies aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, ending ...

Reg Draper, 100, was a stores assistant on Royal Navy battleship HMS Duke of York, which was sailing off the coast of Japan ...

On Sept. 2, 1945, Japan formally surrendered in ceremonies aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, ending World War II. In 1666 ...

Long Islanders who served included a sergeant who flew a record number of bombing missions and soldiers who took part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy.

The lean, bespectacled veteran from Kentucky sat silently in the early evening of Aug. 14 on a stage in the cavernous U.S. Freedom Pavilion in the National WWII Museum. With vintage war planes hanging ...

A Penn Central Railroad repair car called an injector, which replaced the wooden ties beneath the steel rails and replaced six workers that used to do the job, was working in Altoona. Penn Central was ...

The theater featured movies as well as stage acts ...

I remember seeing the Japanese walking down the dock. The Marines were frisking all of them. We were top-side all over the place, hanging off the masts and over the side of our ship, anyplace ...