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The reconstruction of Guam began on July 21, 1944, now known as Liberation Day. It is not surprising that the Seabees (Naval ...
The tranquility at Fort Hunt Park today offers no hint at the clandestine goings-on there during World War II. Today’s ...
Chinese Young Pioneers stand among attendees to a ceremony to mark the 88th anniversary of the start of the entire nation's ...
World War II veteran Leslie Sinclair was on duty manning a defensive ‘pit’ in case of a Japanese attack near Balikpapan in Borneo when he heard the joyful cries of his brothers-in-arms shouting out – ...
Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.
In the jungles, plains and mountains of Luzon, the U.S. Army is experimenting with 3D-printed drones, missile launchers and ...
Australia is about to spend $10 billion on a new fleet of frigates, with German and Japanese ship makers battling for the ...
"That was the only time in my life he ever gave any real details, and I was in my 40s and had already done eight years of ...
As Tim Bouverie shows in his masterful new diplomatic history of the war, the prime minister was right, both in his ...
Designed to play on fears of disease, illustration by artist Frances Lee (Wismer) Baker (Blakemore) depicts a Japanese military officer carrying a bloody sword (caricature of Hideki Tojo, Prime ...
NPR's Scott Simon asks veteran career diplomat Nicholas Burns about the Trump administration's plans to downsize the State Department.
Stanley became a prisoner of war along with 80,000 other Allied fighters and civilians.