As a young Marine corporal in the Pacific Theater in World War II, Earl Tatum ran unarmed toward ... And on the beach of Tarawa, through a crossfire from Japanese machine-gun nests, he walked ...

Eighty years later, thanks to dental and anthropological analysis, the remains of Pvt. Ben Leslie have been accounted for.

That date, however, precedes an additional three months of American fighting against the Japanese that occurred until World War II ended in its entirety in August, shortly after nuclear bombs were ...

Russia has marked the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War II with a major military ... in the 1937-1945 Second Sino-Japanese War were 35 million.

In World War II, it participated in the battles of Leyte Gulf and Okinawa, two key US defeats of Imperial Japanese forces in 1944 and 1945 respectively. The ship, designated as a submarine chaser ...

May 8 marks 80 years since the close of the European theater in World War II, when Nazi Germany surrendered ... theater continued for weeks, until the Japanese government surrendered on Aug ...

This week marks 80 years since Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allies, bringing the Second World War to an end in ... weight on September 2 when the Japanese Instrument of Surrender ...

MANILA, Philippines — A World War II-era Philippine navy ship to be used ... which faces the South China Sea. Japanese forces and British marines joined as observers of the combat exercise ...

He was like any other soldier serving in the Aleutians during World War II. Except he was 50 years ... and he arrived right as the front moved elsewhere. Japanese forces occupied Attu and Kiska ...

Even when his commanding general, Douglas MacArthur, had received orders to escape the Philippines after the Japanese invaded the archipelago at the start of World War II, Wainwright had made a ...

Documents suggest that 1,086 Japanese World War II soldiers were buried in a mass grave on Palau's Peleliu Island. Now, a team commissioned by the Japanese government is hoping to bring them home.