The Guadalcanal campaign was one of the fiercest and longest battles in the Pacific, exacting heavy losses on both American and Japanese forces. Although the island seemed minor, its Henderson ...

Marty Connor was 18 years old when he fought all 36 days during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. But perhaps his greatest legacy would be what happened after the war. 80 years after Iwo Jima, his ...

Acknowledging it is crucial to a more honest reckoning with the past and a more just moral stance in the present ...

A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the ...

Relatives of more than three dozen Venezuelans sent from the U.S. to a prison in El Salvador said their family members were ...

Looking back through history, it’s often difficult to see passed events that have so shaped our modern world. The story of Japan in World War II for example has often left those in the west with an ...

U.S. Navy nurses stationed in the Philippine Islands became prisoners of the brutal Imperial Japanese Army for 37 months.

On Wednesday, about 200 people descended on Santa Fe for a ceremony commemorating the 83rd anniversary of the fall of Bataan.

Despite the successes of the I-19 in the war, Japan was never able to connect these victories with a larger strategy for ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito visited Iwo Jima on Monday and paid tribute to thousands of Japanese and Americans who died in one ...