With the Allies closing in, Germany and Imperial Japan launched spectacularly daring last-ditch missions to save themselves ...

More than 14 U.S. Army and Marine divisions never landed on X-Day of Operation Downfall, the planned invasion of Japan to end ...

Originally struggling to achieve success in the China Burma India Theater, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress made its mark once ...

Aerial warfare historian Yusuke Orita was thrilled when his decade-long effort to collect and analyze U.S. military war film ...

At the end of the Second World War, an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 1945. Since then, Aug. 9 ...

A crew had just watched their bombs drop over Kyushu, Japan when flak hit their aircraft and an engine caught fire.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's recent wrong remarks on China's Taiwan region have triggered a renewed round of ...

Japan, a U.S. ally, has used civilian airports and seaports for military training drills during a large-scale war game as it prepares for a potential conflict with China. The Japan Self-Defense Forces ...

At 100 years old, World War II veteran Ben Lafon can still recall his journey from a Texas farm boy to a sergeant in the U.S.