The 31-star Perry flag is visible in the background of this photo, which shows United States General Douglas MacArthur signing the official Japanese surrender on September 2, 1945.© Public domain ...

U.S. Navy sailors man the rails as the guided-missile destroyer USS O'Kane departs Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, on March 23, 2012, for a deployment to the Western Pacific.

Like most veterans, he said, his grandfather did not speak openly about the war or his wartime experiences. As a lifelong collector with an appreciation for the past, Stein was in the process of ...

Her armament was the battleship’s defining feature. Nine 18.1-inch Type 94 naval guns, mounted in three triple turrets, were the largest ever fitted to a warship, capable of firing 3,218-pound ...

In August 1945, John K. Bremyer undertook a 124-hour, 9,000-mile journey to Tokyo Bay, where he delivered the flag flown by Commodore Matthew Perry in 1853 to Admiral William Halsey's USS "Missouri" ...

The grandson of a World War II veteran tracked down the Japanese family connected to a flag his grandfather brought back from war. "I was always fascinated by it as a child," said the grandson.