The Iowa Gold Star Military Museum will host programming on Saturday 15 February 2025 beginning at 10:00 AM for the 80th Anniversary of the battle for Iwo Jima and its impact on the ultimate victory ...

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 the policy forbidding German Jews from serving in the U.S. military was changed during World War II, Pins joined the ... the Pacific theater to assist Japan. That plan was thwarted when ...

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GalleryUsing pictures left by her grandmother, photographer Jennifer Sakai retraces the story of her ancestors, who were sent to the Poston camp during World War II. When Jennifer Sakai's ...

To honor the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima, the National Museum of the Pacific War is hosting a three-day commemorative event from February 21–23, ...

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 ...

The museum will showcase flags central to the liberation of American soldiers who were kept prisoners of war following the ...

Several weeks earlier, the Palawan Massacre took place in the Philippines, where 139 American POWs were killed by Japanese ...

The weather-beaten flag ... Japanese flag that serves as a reminder of the endurance and fortitude of American soldiers who became prisoners of war after the fall of the Bataan Peninsula when ...