More than 7,000 Marines were killed and 20,000 wounded during the historic battle from Feb. 19 to March 26, 1945, when ...

The remains of 106 Tamil laborers who toiled on the Thailand-Burma Railway under Japanese occupation have been cremated in a ...

The Ki-27 was a single-seater, highly maneuverable, fixed-gear airplane, but it was no match for the Flying Tigers. When one ...

The Imperial Japanese Army was victorious early on in the Pacific theatre. As the war progressed and the situation became more desperate for the army, Japanese soldiers started to use more sacrificial ...

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health ...

Predictions based on this unscientific and inhumane theory always proved accurate, Yasuo Obi, a second lieutenant of the Imperial Japanese Army who survived the battle, says in his memoir titled ...

After the nation’s defeat in 1945, the former Imperial Japanese Army and Navy were dismantled, and Japan adopted a new Constitution whose Article 9 forever renounces war as a sovereign right or ...

One of the most devastating attacks in American history, Pearl Harbor will forever be remembered as the moment the country ...

The Blue Angels flying team includes some of the most accomplished and skilled pilots in the U.S. Navy. Here are some facts ...

During World War II, the Japanese imperial authorities abducted, coerced, tricked and sometimes recruited hundreds of thousands of women from Japan's colonial empire to become sexual slaves for ...

In an earlier painting, “At the bottom of the Pacific” (1985), Ritter described an “eerie menagerie of seashells — but as you ...