On March 2, 1945, the 5th Marine Division was embroiled in the battle for Hill 362. The division would fight on Iwo Jima ...

Japan's imperial ambitions in Pacific Asia from the 1880s to 1945 were shaped by a web of strategic alliances, racial politics, and great-power rivalries ...

April 1945. The Pacific War had decisively turned in favour for the United States. During the waning days of that month, the colossal Japanese battleship Yamato, a maritime behemoth, set sail for ...

Capt. Robert A Lewis wrote the account during and in the immediate aftermath of dropping the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, ...

The Bearcat arrived with everything a late-war carrier fighter was supposed to have: speed, punch, and an exceptional climb rate, wrapped in a compact airframe built around the same powerful Double ...

No World War II battle represents the fighting spirit of the US Marine Corps better than Iwo Jima. In terms of its combat brutality and staggering casualties, it was the worst battle in the history of ...

Stories Behind the Stars remembers Ralph Ambrose Landis, a Chambersburg Marine killed in action on Iwo Jima in 1945 during World War II.

U.S. military officials carried out the first-ever repatriation ceremony at the Manila American Cemetery for the remains of “unknown” U.S. service members.

Russia has invoked international law after strikes on its ally even though the country's invasion of Ukraine is to blame for the breakdown of norms.

When the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump demanded Iran’s “unconditional surrender,” I was reminded of Japan before the end of the Pacific War. However, what comes to mind is not August ...

In a classic case of wartime jitters, the U.S. Navy once opened fire on the planet Venus. Discover the history of the Japanese Fu-Go balloon bombs and the "battle" that followed.

President Donald Trump’s declaration that the war in the Gulf is “near complete” does not mean that the world is returning to normal. Rather, it marks ...