CBS News' Edward R. Murrow was shocked by what he saw at the just-liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945. Work continues to ensure the world never forgets.

Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a U.S. naval captain ordered his battleship to hold a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot ...

Analysis of samples of water and sediment taken from Stampede Creek in Alaska indicate high antimony concentrations as far as ...

Despite the largest loss of life sustained by one family in the U.S. Navy's history, Alleta and Thomas were determined to ...

The creek is a mile-long stream on the southeastern side of Little Kiska Island, beside the bigger, more prominent Kiska Island 242 miles west of Adak at the far end of the Aleutian chain.

The third shell was found Feb. 8 and removed March 25 from a site near an elementary school in the Ozato district of Nanjo ...

The United States purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867 for $7.2 million, securing access to the Pacific northern rim and ending Russian presence in North America.

On a small island in the Aleutians, some place names from World War II are reminders of the hate and racism of that time. An ...