When I was a kid, I was fascinated by a traditional katana my grandfather had brought home from Japan in 1945. Years later, I ...

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.

May 8, 1945 V-E Day. Germany surrenders unconditionally. World War II in Europe is over. May 12-18, 1945 In Okinawa, Marines hit Japan's main line of defense at Sugar Loaf Hill. It will take ...

In May 1945, British forces crossed the Irrawaddy River in Burma and engaged a Japanese force, north of the Prome-Taungup road. With the tide of war changing in the allies favor, by May 9 ...

Volume two covers the subsequent period through Japan’s World War II defeat of 1945. The second volume also notes that the Manchukuo government forced opium addicts and other drug users to work ...

In 1945, the idea of just war was firmly established ... and hours before the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. WW2: How close did D-Day come to failure? documentWW2: How close ...

As World War II neared its end, Japan found itself with much of its naval ... The Kugisho MXY7 Ohka "Cherry Blossom" was introduced in 1945, at the conflict's tail end. It was first used against ...

As conservatives urge Shigeru Ishiba to follow the late Shinzo Abe’s lead, moderates warn against alienating Japan’s ...

BOSTON--Twenty-two historic artifacts that were looted following the Battle of Okinawa in World War II have been returned to Japan after a family from Massachusetts discovered them in their late ...

Several stories published in t Evening News and the Wilkes-Barre Record beginning Feb. 13, 1945, and throughout the month announced Mr. Alan B. Cutting and his wife, Mary, of Kingston were alive and ...