the number of young Japanese pilots lost in suicide missions would have been one fewer. Masanori Tsujita, a researcher of modern history, refers to World War II as a “total war” in which ...

During her travels and time as a Red Cross Nurse, Virginia traveled with a William Ewart & Sons Tablecloth she had with her ...

First Lt. Herbert G. Tennyson was one of 11 men on the B-24 shot down off New Guinea. The remains of the pilot of a downed ...

Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headlamp and enters a cave buried in Okinawa's jungle. He gently runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge. These are from the skulls, he ...

Navy pilot John Leppla was credited with shooting down five Japanese aircraft in aerial combat before he was shot down and ...

TAKETA CITY, Japan — A U.S. Army colonel’s great-grandson returned a “good luck” flag Wednesday to the nephew of a Japanese soldier who carried it into battle during World War II.

From left: Japanese Minister of Education ... With 2025 marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, issues of historical perception are expected to attract renewed attention, and ...

A U.S. pilot who was long considered missing in action after a failed World War II mission has been found. U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Herbert G. Tennyson of Wichita, Kansas, died in March 1944 ...

Credit: Santa Barbara County Historic Photo Archives photo The opening months of World War II had ... American pilots escape. In retribution for their aid to the American airmen, the Japanese ...

Decades after WWII, unexploded ordnance is leaking toxic chemicals into the Baltic Sea, posing a threat to marine life and ...