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.

Sgt. Joe Harris was one of an elite group of Black paratroopers during World War II. He is being laid to rest today. He was ...

Despite the successes of the I-19 in the war, Japan was never able to connect these victories with a larger strategy for ...

Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a U.S. naval captain ordered his battleship to hold a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot ...

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 ...

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

U.S. Army Maj. James J. O’Donovan was captured, subjected to the 65-mile Bataan Death March and held in POW camps by Japan. He died a POW on Oct. 18, 1942, at age 34. He will be interred April 15 in ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Monday made a rare visit to the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima to mark the ...

Their job was to put out the flames caused by balloon bombs that Japan ... well into World War II, Black soldiers were typically relegated to menial, non-combat positions in the Army.

IWO-TO, Japan (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito visited Iwo Jima on Monday and paid tribute to thousands of Japanese and ...