On April 1, 1945, the 4th Marines landed on Okinawa for what would become the largest and bloodiest land battle of the ...

I have seen the places where the Battle of Okinawa took place—the caves, the memorials, and the landscapes marked by battle ...

April 1945. The Pacific War had decisively turned in favour for the United States. During the waning days of that month, the ...

The animated film is inspired by the real-life events of the Himeyuri Corps, who were mobilized, and then abandoned, in ...

Did demons create the first atomic bombs? Every August, debate renews over both the wisdom and the morality of dropping the two American atomic bombs, 81 years ago, on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima ...

My copy of “The Greatest Generation” is autographed to me by Robert Eugene Bush, who personified the title of Tom Brokaw’s ...

Enno Lolling, the camp physician at Dachau who collected human skin, and Rudolf Hess, the commandant of Auschwitz, tried to ...

The National Museum of the Marine Corps is telling the story of a Sayre native and veteran who carried his town's namesake on ...

Fans of classic war films like Saving Private Ryan are urged to add an upcoming Netflix historical drama to their watch lists ...

The images leave a lasting impression on anyone watching the news: unmanned drones crashing into targeted facilities in the U ...

As Robert L. Crouse, Jr. turned 100 years old on August 31, he was surrounded by 75 family members and friends at the United Methodist Church in South Williamsport. Crouse also had something else to ...

President Truman took to the airwaves the day of the leveling of the first city, Hiroshima, lying that it was “a military base.” But while there was indeed an Imperial Army base on the outskirts of ...