Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.

The Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Teruzuki was discovered more than 2,600 feet below the ocean's surface near the Solomon Islands.

A famed Japanese destroyer lost in 1942 has been found severed on the South Pacific seafloor — the result of a fantastic David-vs.-Goliath sea battle that remains the stuff of legend for the U.S. Navy ...

Chinese ships also circled Australia earlier this year, performing live-fire drills which New Zealand's defense minister described as a "wake-up call." Chinese aircraft also continue to cross the ...

Special to Wesson News Twenty-seven Mississippi veterans, including two from the Wesson area, along with their guardians travelled to Washington, D.C., last month on a Honor Flight sponsored by ...

Japan's imperial couple commemorated compatriots who died in internment camps after the end of World War II during the first ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito has met Mongolia's President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh during a visit aimed at strengthening ties between ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito has announced plans to honor Japanese World War II prisoners during his visit to Mongolia next week ...

Korean War Veteran Joe Cirillo greeted his buddy and fellow Korean veteran Randy Jurgensen, and one of the oldest veterans present was Nils Mockler, a survivor of Iwo Jima. The oldest son of Harlem ...

Wright, a former corporal with the United States Marine Corps Raider Regiment, bravely fought in Iwo Jima and played a role in liberating Guam.

80 years after his death, North Dakota World War II serviceman's remains identified Remains of U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Irvin C. Ellingson, who died in a Tokyo military prison fire in 1945 ...