Twenty-seven cavalrymen charged Japanese infantry at Morong, Philippines, on January 16, 1942. They scattered hundreds of ...
Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many of the Pacific Islands in hard-fought naval and amphibious battles before ending the war ...
The Japanese began to bomb American bases in the Philippines hours after the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor that launched the United States into World War II. By the spring of 1942, Japanese ...
In one of the most astonishing true stories of World War II, Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda stayed hidden on Lubang Island in the Philippines, continuing his mission for nearly three decades - because ...
A soldier from Delaware has been accounted for after he was killed during World War II, according to the Defense POW/MIA ...
In January 1945, during World War II, American intelligence officers examined an intact Japanese bomber and uncovered a ...