Philippine Sea - amid one of WWII’s most pivotal naval battles, a Japanese pilot did the unthinkable: he crashed his own ...

The invasion of Iwo Jima, known as Operation Detachment would see the USMC undertake a huge amphibious invasion of the ...

The (JPO) announces that Graham Rowell, the F-35 JPO Japan program manager, has been awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, ...

Military collectibles from World War II have surpassed their status as mere artifacts and become tangible snippets of history ...

Control of Midway island was part of the Japanese navy’s plan to dominate the Pacific. American codebreakers had other ideas.

A crew exploring the final resting site of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that was sunk during World War II found something ... despite the ship's officers knowing they were headed to engage ...

It was “RS NO” (the women knew it as RS negative, the Japanese ... Naval Service by Margaret Curtis-Otter, the organisation’s Acting First Officer. But even before the declaration of World ...

The Missouri's captain ordered a military burial at sea with full honors, marking one of the more unusual and little-known episodes of World War II ... a petty officer 2nd class in a flight ...

Even well into World War II, Black soldiers were typically relegated to menial, non-combat positions in the Army. They cooked, patched roads, did the laundry and guarded the military gates ...

TAKETA CITY, Japan — A U.S. Army colonel’s great-grandson returned a “good luck” flag Wednesday to the nephew of a Japanese soldier who carried it into battle during World War II.

This soldier became the first Hispanic American MOH recipient of WWII. The Japanese ... the Americans buried 2,351 Japanese and took 29 prisoners — none of whom were officers — while losing ...

The sailor from Allentown went on to serve in the Navy ... After Japan surrendered, Gutman helped disarm enemy soldiers and destroy ammunition and weapons. He took a sword from an officer, telling ...