On May 9, 1945, the Japanese heavy cruiser Haguro set out from Singapore, unaware that it would become part of a deadly ...

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.

As the sun set on April 5, 1945, Convoy HO-MO-03 departed Hong Kong under heavy escort, carrying vital supplies to Japan. Among its defenders was the battered but battle-hardened destroyer Amatsukaze, ...

A NATIONAL two-minute silence will be held next month to mark VJ Day and honour the WW2 soldiers who fought and died in the ...

The Battle of Okinawa was the bloodiest fight in the Pacific theater in World War II, with tens of thousands killed across ...

From 1945 to 1957, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Japan evolved from a combat support unit into something more: a driving force for peace, recovery, and transformation.

Ending the War in the Pacific. D.M. Giangreco’s 2009 book, Hell to Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947, set the gold standard for research on the end of World War II in the ...

The U.S. launched its first successful a-bomb test in the desert in New Mexico in July of 1945 — and although Germany had already been defeated, the war was still raging against Japan.Three days ...

Nakajima Michio, 𠀓𤚇𙥷𡌕𰀇, Shinto Deities that Crossed the Sea: Japan's "Overseas Shrines," 1868 to 1945, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, Vol. 37, No. 1, Religion and the Japanese Empire ...

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Three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, on Aug. 9, 1945, the U.S. unleashed another atomic bomb on Japan on the city of Nagasaki — instantly killing nearly 40,000 more people.