Wikimedia Commons/PH2 K. Bates, USN USS Kidd On the morning of November 24, 1943, USS Kidd spotted 15 Japanese dive bombers ...

Wikimedia Commons/U.S. Navy The Marianas Turkey Shoot On June 19, 1944, USS Yorktown helped deliver the most crushing defeat ...

The reconstruction of Guam began on July 21, 1944, now known as Liberation Day. It is not surprising that the Seabees (Naval ...

The North American P-51D Mustang was the definitive long-range escort fighter of World War II, fundamentally turning the tide of the air war over Europe. -While early versions of the Mustang were ...

Stanley became a prisoner of war along with 80,000 other Allied fighters and civilians.

World War II veteran Leslie Sinclair was on duty manning a defensive ‘pit’ in case of a Japanese attack near Balikpapan in ...

The tranquility at Fort Hunt Park today offers no hint at the clandestine goings-on there during World War II. Today’s ...

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.

A photo shows a document substantiating details of the Imperial Japanese Army's Unit 731 — new evidence of atrocities during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931-45).

In the jungles, plains and mountains of Luzon, the U.S. Army is experimenting with 3D-printed drones, missile launchers and ...

The National Archives of Japan has disclosed to researchers the names of members of biological warfare units that the former Imperial Japanese Army had stationed in China. Researchers hope the ...

The Japanese 64th Sentai (fighter group) of the Imperial Army Air Force, flying thirteen Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa fighters, began attacking the surviving crew members dangling in their parachutes ...