The Imperial Japanese Army was victorious early on in the Pacific theatre. As the war progressed and the situation became more desperate for the army, Japanese soldiers started to use more sacrificial ...

When I was a kid, I was fascinated by a traditional katana my grandfather had brought home from Japan in 1945. Years later, I ...

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

To pay tribute to Dr Ee and other pioneers, writer Shawn Seah has penned a new series of books for children, Our Amazing Heroes. Mrs Elizabeth Choy and Captain Ho Weng Toh are the other two pioneers ...

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 ...

In 1943, when Subhas Chandra Bose took over the INA, a military unit under the Japanese made up of Indian soldiers captured ...

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 ...

The remains of a long-lost WWII warship have been identified after more than 80 years when it was attacked and sunk by Nazis in 1944. The ship was carrying 270 men and 100 were killed in battle.

The B-32 only flew some recon missions and engaged in some skirmishes in the closing days of WWII before being retired and ...

Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr., one of the last two remaining members of the 355 original Tuskegee Airmen during World ...

This year the world will mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, when Japan formally surrendered to the Allies and ended the ...