The Ki-27 was a single-seater, highly maneuverable, fixed-gear airplane, but it was no match for the Flying Tigers. When one ...

Bombers took on different roles during World War II, depending on size, but many were multi-role aircraft. True “heavies” ...

Eighty years ago this week, U.S. Marines landed on the tiny island of Iwo Jima, 660 miles south of Tokyo. Iwo Jima was a key objective to win World War ...

Naval vessels are staffed by some of the most courageous people in uniform you’ll ever meet. This was doubly true ...

Japan detonated 461 WWII-era US-made shells Thursday off the coast of Japan's southeastern island of Okinawa, the Stars and Stripes US military newspaper reported. The shells saw active combat in ...

Mysteries still shroud a tragedy 80 years ago in which many civilian passengers died in U.S. military attacks on running ...

This is according to the World War II Museum in New Orleans. Most Americans remember Pearl Harbor as an attack by Japanese planes, but Japan’s midget submarines were supposed to play a far ...

Over the first month of this operation, the ship is credited with downing 12 Japanese aircraft. The Indiana class is perhaps the oldest class of any warship to participate in WWII – it was one o ...