The shocking photos show the prisoners of war reduced to skin and bone after being starved and brutally beaten by their captors until they were freed following the fall of Japan in 1945.

DOMAINE PUBLIC/XINHUA NEWS Service records of officers and soldiers before Japan's defeat in 1945, made public on May 15 by the country's National Archives, revealed that some were assigned to ...

He was recruited into the unit's ranks at the end of March 1945, just a few months before ... war - which would end abruptly weeks later with Japan's surrender. Three days after the atomic bomb ...

Japan has, for the first time, identified human remains from the Battle of Okinawa using only DNA testing, the Ministry of ...

Military Factory added that three more A7Ms were lost to U.S. bombings and the Japanese surrender on Aug. 15, 1945 ... The post Japan Considering Naming its GCAP Fighter After the WW2-Era A7M ...

Their mission? To rebuild a nation. But first, they had to survive it. The First Footprints: Okinawa, 1945 Before Japan’s formal surrender on September 2, 1945, U.S. forces had already begun a ...

At 8:15 a.m. on the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber called the Enola Gay arrived at its target above the heart of Hiroshima, Japan. Below was a city that had been left relatively ...

At the end of WW2, the U.S. imposed numerous limits on Japan’s military to avoid continued ... By the end of the war in 1945, Germany’s fighting strength had been depleted by over 4.3 million ...

Emma Bushee's sons were serving on six continents. At home, she waited for their letters — and tried to pray them home safe.

You can get in touch with Jack by emailing j.beresford@newsweek.com A diary belonging to a teenage girl living in New York City in 1945 has offered ... is the news of Japan's surrender.