In October 1945, two months after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and one ...

The USS Esdall, a 314-foot destroyer sunk by Japanese forces in 1942, was known as "the dancing mouse" for its ability to ...

The discovery, announced Monday, has revealed the resting place of more than 200 servicemen who died three months after the ...

Walker is a U.S. Navy Veteran who served in World War II as a 40 MM Gunner aboard the USS Idaho. He told the Press-Citizen ...

The year 2022, for those interested in US naval history, will long be remembered as the year in which not just one, but two, memorable books about Admiral Chester Nimitz and his role in World War II ...

The nation’s rapid reinvention after World War II has often been ... chaos so recently consumed Tokyo. Then she is compelled to spend her days keeping it at bay. I asked how she thought the ...

What You Need to Know: The USS Wisconsin (BB-65), one of the formidable Iowa-class battleships, faced not just the enemy ...

About 80 years after the end of one of the bloodiest battles in World War II, unexploded wartime ordnance ... marked the first time for Tokyo to extend such support to a non-military organization ...

A former POW camp in the Philippines which was the site of a massacre of U.S. troops has fallen into disrepair.

If you're looking to learn a little (or a lot) about Japan's history, the Tokyo National Museum is ... of previous edifices (during World War II, nearly the entire temple was razed).