During World War II, Japanese radar systems could detect American B-29 Superfortress bombers long before they reached their ...

America’s island-hopping campaign in the Pacific bypassed Japan’s strongest fortresses instead of attacking them head-on.

It’s hard to imagine what Schuylkill County families must have thought when they read the bold headline “WAR IS ON” in the Pottsville Republican on Dec. 7, 1941 – 84 years ago today. The Republican ...

Eight decades since the end of the Second World War, the US-Japan alliance continues to evolve beyond its Cold War foundations. On September 2, 1945, on the deck of USS Missouri, Imperial Japan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 4,000 people live in Unalaska today, which includes Dutch Harbor and Amaknak Island to the north. During World War II, ...

In the final months of World War II, a small team of American commandos parachuted into the mountains of northern Vietnam to train Ho Chi Minh’s guerrillas to fight Japan. They were members of the OSS ...

Arguments about history are proliferating as the postwar order led by the United States crumbles. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. In September, China held a military parade to ...

The recent 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II inspired multiple publications on how Japan remembers its wartime history. However, there has been less said about the ...