Vaughn Drake Jr., an esteemed Central Kentuckian believed to be the oldest survivor of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, died last week.

Gen. George Patton gave the Thunderbirds high praise, saying "the 45th Infantry Division is one of the best, if not the best.

On April 11, 1945, a Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball during the ...

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.

The motor torpedo boat (MTB), also known as the patrol torpedo (PT) boat, has acquired its own special swashbuckling aura ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about "war trauma," which the Japanese government began ...

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 ...

Vaughn Drake Jr. was a 23-year-old Army engineer working in Oahu when Japanese ... the end of World War I. He would be present at the start of the U.S. entry into World War II.

Question: I've heard that the national government is investigating former Imperial Japanese ... war. What kind of illness is it? Answer: That is "war trauma." Similar symptoms have been noted ...

Marty Connor was 18 years old when he fought all 36 days during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. But perhaps his greatest legacy would be what happened after the war. 80 years after Iwo Jima, his ...