An American soldier who was killed during World War II has been accounted for nearly 80 years after his death. Last week, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that it had identified the ...

A World War II airman who was taken captive by Japanese forces and died in a prison fire after his plane was shot down has been accounted for, military officials said Wednesday.

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Monday paid their respects to the war dead on Ioto Island in the Pacific, the ...

An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the scars remain, allowing visitors to get up close and touch history.

The 81st anniversary of the Battle of Kohima was commemorated at Kohima War Cemetery, honoring soldiers' sacrifices. This ...

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 ... and the Imperial Army followed with its ...

U.S. Navy nurses stationed in the Philippine Islands became prisoners of the brutal Imperial Japanese Army for 37 months. Those 37 months made hell look like a surfing vacation.

As the country’ observed the 83rd anniversary of the Fall of Bataan (that has been renamed Araw ng Kagitingan), Secretary of ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito is visiting Iwo Jima to pay tribute to those who died on the island where one of World War II's ...

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and ...