FUKUOKA, Japan - “Eighty years ago today, (my father, Lt. Kentaro Toji) was one of the executioners in an incident involving ...

Although he had close calls, Connecticut World War II veteran Edward J. Apicella Sr. said he survived the hellish battle of Okinawa physically unscathed. But the Waterbury native, his voice breaking ...

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines — Eighty years ago, Baguio bore the full brunt of World War II in the weeks leading to the city’s liberation from the Imperial Japanese Army on April 27, 1945. A ...

Nimitz's new team required more than crack pilots; the yet-to-be-named Blue Angels needed someone to lead them. Roy M. "Butch" Voris (center in the photograph) was born on September 17, 1919, in ...

Unlike Pearl Harbor, the American Naval and Army leadership in the Philippines had intelligence that the Japanese had attacked Hawaii. The Philippines received the intel at 3 a.m. on December 8, 1941.

“The police chief at the time promoted him to patrolman, and he served in that capacity from 1940 until 1943, when he was drafted into the military.” Osterdahl said Beebe was killed in action May 5, ...

On January 28, 1948, two prisoners were executed in Yuhuatai, an urban district of the Chinese city of Nanjing. Their names were Tsuyoshi Noda and Toshiaki Mukai, both Japanese, the same age ...

Eight KI-21 bombers from Imperial Japanese Army Air Force (IJAAF), codenamed ‘Sally’ by the Allies, raided Calcutta. Oil stores at Budge Budge bore brunt of the attack but Calcutta wasn’t entirely ...

Japanese troops took part in a major US-Australian military exercise for the first time in 2015 as Washington looked to bolster links among its allies in the face of an increasingly assertive China.

A photo shows a document substantiating details of the Imperial Japanese Army's Unit 731 — new evidence of atrocities during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931-45).

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the commander of the Imperial Japanese Navy, was architect of the December 1941 Pearl Harbour attack, making him a top military target for Washington.