No war – won or lost – is ever waged without sacrifice. Those sacrifices can be material in the loss of equipment or infrastructure, monetary in the cost to a nation’s economy of waging a war but ...

Every August, Japanese media outlets offer specials on World War II and accounts of survivors’ wartime experiences. These features center around Aug. 15, the date when Emperor Hirohito announced ...

As World War II neared its end, Japan found itself with much of its naval forces destroyed as the Americans reconquered Japan's newly acquired islands. One way the Japanese decided to counter the ...

After police and the nearby bomb squad investigated to the scene, they announced that the weapon was inactive and safe ...

West Palm Beach centenarian Franklin Simon, who celebrated his 100th birthday in June, served heroically in Europe during ...

Six years after it started, World War II ended in 1945 ... 214,000 people and force Japan to surrender. Emperor Hirohito announces Japan’s capitulation on August 15, and the formal surrender occurs on ...

Soviet Union, CIRCA 1941-1943 world war 2 stock videos & royalty-free footage Stock video clip footage of a group of World War one / two army soldiers marching in a parade - Tripod Zoom in to the map ...

Among them was a Japanese sword he’d found on an Okinawa beach in the final days of World War II. It was six months after I first asked Benny if he’d be interested in finding the sword’s owner.

Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward has reproduced a rare map from 1947 that shows how the ... what their neighborhood was like two years after World War II ended. Republished to mark the 75th anniversary ...

Japanese troops last week defused another American-made shell believed to be left over from World War II and removed it from ...

The shocking photos show the prisoners of war reduced ... committed during World War II following unconfirmed reports about a subterranean torture chamber for decades. The Japanese Imperial ...