Hiroo Onoda remained on an island in the Philippines ... Japanese soldier to surrender – but only after his former commander, who in 1945 had told him to stay behind and spy on American troops ...

A Japanese soldier who hunkered down in the jungles of the Philippines for nearly three decades, refusing to believe that World War II had ended, has died in Tokyo. Hiroo Onoda was 91 years old.

After the Japanese start landing on the 22nd of December, in Washington, they write off the Philippines." The troops, who called themselves the "Battling Bastards of Bataan," were soon on half ...

Japan invades Hong Kong; British forces surrender. In the Philippines: Japanese forces take Manila; American and Filipino troops withdraw to Bataan peninsula. January: Japan invades Burma.

A US Navy submarine that sank more Japanese warships during the Second World War than any other has been found at the bottom of the South China Sea. The USS Harder went down with its 79 US sailors ...

With its victory and subsequent annexation of the Philippines ... the Japanese garrison in Manila, letting it "wither on the vine" while they focused on the main body of Japanese troops far ...

A ship that US and Philippine forces planned to sink beat them to it. A former US World War II-era warship, which survived two of the Pacific War’s most important battles, was supposed to go ...

Nantoku is the term for young students – 51 of them from the Philippines ... to Japanese aggression in China, culminating in the Pearl Harbor bombing in December 1941, kick-starting WW2.

Taffy 3 was a massive naval fight during the wider Battle of Leyte Gulf during the Philippines campaign. A 23-ship Japanese task force including the heavily armed battleship Yamato approached the ...