The United States was dragged unwillingly into World War II by the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. It was part of Japan’s wider plan to dominate the entire Asia ...

This article looks at the 7 most powerful countries before World War 2 and dives into one of the deadliest conflicts in human history. You can skip our detailed analysis and go directly to the 5 ...

500 Lb. Bomb From World War 2 Explodes at Airport in Japan, Creating Massive Crater The explosion occurred on Wednesday, Oct. 2 at Miyazaki Airport, a former Imperial Japanese Navy base built in 1943 ...

Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.

The Blackburn B-25 Roc was a naval fighter that was first introduced to the Royal Navy in early 1939. The aircraft was designed to function as a dive bomber and fighter, so it was armed with four ...

An unexploded U.S. bomb from World War II that had been buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday, causing a large crater in a taxiway and the cancellation of more than 80 flights but no ...

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" ...