Jacob Elordi's underrated Prime Video miniseries The Narrow Road to the Deep North is a must-watch for fans of historical ...

In small town America, boys with absent heads of households were taken under the wing of World War I veterans from such ...

See rare WWII bomb crew artifacts and atomic veterans stories at The Highground exhibit, open daily until March 1.

On Dec. 23, 1948, former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were hanged in Tokyo under sentence of ...

On Sept. 2, 1945, the official end of World War II came to pass with Japan’s signing of the Instrument of Surrender aboard ...

Discover the incredible story of Milton Glazier, a Bonner County man captured on Wake Island during World War II.

Army Cpl. James M. Walker from Oklahoma survived the Bataan Death March but died in a Japanese prison. His remains were ...

The Gila River Indian Community has strict rules about accessing the abandoned 16,500-acre site, originally known as the ...

On the morning of Dec. 8, 1941, Sergeant David Akui walked along Waimanalo Beach and spotted what he thought was a sea turtle emerging from the surf. Akui quickly realized he had found something far ...

Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many of the Pacific Islands in hard-fought naval and amphibious battles before ending the war ...

Baumkuchen, a confectionery with German origins, has found an unexpected home in Japan, where it is now a wildly popular sweet. Its introduction to the country traces back to a prisoner of war on a ...

Allied prisoners of war were crammed into Japanese “hell ships” with no food, water, or ventilation—then many died not from abuse, but from friendly fire when their ships were attacked by Allied ...