The kamikaze suicide plane was a last-ditch effort to stave off defeat by a desperate Japan. But its fatal flaw doomed its ...

Japan, despite an officially pacifist Constitution written when memories of its World War II rampage were still fresh--and painful--boasts a military that puts all but a few nations to shame.

World War II veteran Marvin Strombo traveled 10,000 miles from his quiet home in Montana to the land of the rising sun to personally return a Japanese flag he had taken from Sadao Yasue during the ...

After police and the nearby bomb squad investigated to the scene, they announced that the weapon was inactive and safe ...

From a crumbling pill box in the UK to a derelict rail line in Hawaii, these are the abandoned World War II places that the ...

Several weeks earlier, the Palawan Massacre took place in the Philippines, where 139 American POWs were killed by Japanese ...

In the aftermath of World War II, Japanese military leadership hoped it had crushed the spirit of the United States, which would lead to a short military conflict. Instead, the United States awoke ...

Going through her brother’s belongings in El Paso, TX, a History Detectives fan came across a leaflet with Japanese writing and startling war images. A note taped to the box says, “This box ...

Within the Context, Joint Force Capabilities, At Decisive Points” — just one of the haikus written by Army officers during ...

Japan will expand an unprecedented military aid program, the first of its kind since World War II, to help the armed forces ...

One such example occurred on December 7, 1941, when Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese ... heroes of World War II. The Tuskegee Airmen broke through another of the military's barriers.