During World War II, Japanese radar systems could detect American B-29 Superfortress bombers long before they reached their ...
In the middle of World War II, the United States faced a brutal problem in the Pacific: how to defeat Japan’s strongest island fortresses without sacrificing tens of thousands of lives. This story ...
Eighty years ago, a Dawson, Minnesota, man was aboard the USS Missouri when Japan surrendered and signed a peace treaty, essentially marking the end of World War II. "I tell you, I joined the Navy ...
Seven Japanese-American soldiers deemed “enemy aliens” in World War II were posthumously commissioned eight decades after ...
In the first half of 1945, the Japanese press began spreading some astonishing messages: their bombings had set North ...
Transferred late in World War II, Japanese prisoners of war encountered suspicion in southwest Iowa before labor demands ...
Arguments about history are proliferating as the postwar order led by the United States crumbles. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. In September, China held a military parade to ...
It’s hard to imagine what Schuylkill County families must have thought when they read the bold headline “WAR IS ON” in the Pottsville Republican on Dec. 7, 1941 – 84 years ago today. The Republican ...