There are no rows of white crosses along the Satsuma Peninsula or victory memorials dotting Kagoshima Bay. No markers at beaches on Kyushu bearing names of American car brands — Buick, Cadillac, Stutz ...
Lt. Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi arrived on Iwo Jima in June 1944. Over the next eight months, he built one of the most elaborate defense systems in the Pacific, which would lead to one of the costliest ...
Hundreds of American prisoners of war had spent nearly three years starving in a Japanese camp in the Philippines. The story of how they got out remains one of the most extraordinary rescue operations ...
On the 7th of December 1941, the Japanese launched their surprise military strike on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor. It led to the United States formally declaring war on Japan, and vice ...
Yokohama North Dock, situated in the heart of Yokohama, once served as the U.S. Army's main port in Japan after World War II. Even today, it remains a key U.S. Army facility for moving troops, ...
As the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II approaches, only a few veterans of Japan’s brutal war remain. “Never die for Emperor or country,” one advised. As the 80th anniversary of the end of ...
Seven Japanese-American soldiers who were once deemed “enemy aliens” but fought for the Army during World War II were posthumously commissioned as Army officers. Prior to the war, all seven had been ...
SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — As the United States Army prepares to commemorate its 250th Anniversary, one museum in Box Elder County is shining the spotlight on local Japanese Americans who served our ...
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