A new book chronicles the tense negotiations that secured the return of nearly 3,000 Allied civilians held by the Japanese ...

The Consolidated B-32 Dominator was the final heavy bomber to enter service with the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. Originally designed as a backup in case the revolutionary Boeing ...

Itoman, Japan (CNN) — The “bone digger” slides into a thin crevice on a hill in the Okinawan jungle. He’s a slight man, nimbly fitting his frame through the cave entrance, carefully avoiding the sharp ...

IWO-TO, Japan (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito visited Iwo Jima on Monday and paid tribute to thousands of Japanese and Americans who died in one of World War II's bloodiest battles. Naruhito and his ...

Walter LaSota was blown out of a foxhole by a Japanese bomb the first time he was wounded during the World War II Battle of Okinawa. LaSota, a private with I Company, 22nd Marine Regiment, 6th Marine ...

A man cries in front of the Cornerstone of Peace monument walls on which the names of all those who lost their lives during the Battle of Okinawa, at the Peace Memorial Park in Itoman, Okinawa ...

A U.S. squad armed with guns and hand grenades closes in on Japanese holdouts entrenched in dugouts during World War II on Attu Island, Alaska, in June 1943. (U.S. Army via AP, File) ANCHORAGE, Alaska ...

ANCHORAGE — Gregory Golodoff spent most of his years on a quiet Alaska island, living an ordinary life, managing a co-op store, fishing for crab and serving as the village council president. But ...

WHITTIER, Alaska (KTUU/Gray News) - An important part of Alaskan history is now back in Alaska. On Tuesday, the Prince William Sound Museum in Whittier accepted a 1939 Japanese machine gun — called a ...