Sergeant David Akui walked along Waimanalo Beach on the morning of Dec. 8, 1941, and spotted what he thought was a sea turtle ...

It’s hard to imagine what Schuylkill County families must have thought when they read the bold headline “WAR IS ON” in the ...

Historians have debated for decades whether the U.S. should have entered WWII earlier. The U.S. officially joined the global ...

December 8 marks the day when former US President Franklin D Roosevelt made the declaration of war against Japan before ...

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 ...

World War II narratives, up for grabs. In September, China held a military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the ...

Sept. 2 marks the 80th anniversary of Japan's formal World War II surrender. The capitulation was by design forceful and imposing, an absolutely made for Hollywood event — as in Hollywood documentary ...

TOKYO — George Takei, best known for his role as starship Enterprise helmsman Hikaru Sulu on the science fiction TV and movie series “Star Trek,” gave a Vulcan salute Thursday before speaking at the ...

The country’s postwar history was a remarkable story of national rebirth. Now the assumptions that underpinned the last 80 years of policy are being stressed to the limit. Japanese Prime Minister ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan paid tribute Friday to more than 3 million war dead as the country marked its surrender that ended World War II 80 years ago, as concern grows about the rapidly fading memories of ...

American service members in Australia can find remnants of their World War II predecessors in the center of one of the country’s largest cities. Brisbane, in the eastern state of Queensland, has ...