During the Italian Campaign in World War II, German soldiers faced a sight they’d never expected: Japanese-American soldiers. These men were members of the 100th Infantry Battalion, comprised entirely ...

Francois d’Eliscu's training regimen was so hazardous that by March 1943 trainees in the program had already suffered 1,600 ...

About 1,500 Koreans were subjected to harsh and abusive conditions in forced labor during World War II, according to historians. Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi expressed ...

The 312th Infantry Battalion of the Imperial Japanese Army participated in the Battle of Iwo Jima as part of the 2nd Mixed Brigade. Its job was to defend Mount Suribachi and the approaches to Mount ...

8,568,857 yards of cloth and 480,343 pairs of boots and shoes to the Japanese government for distribution to civilians. [33] On 15 July 1962, the division's 97th Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop was ...

A Carthage physician who was inducted into the Hall of Carthage Heroes as a Citizen of Distinction played a role in American and Japanese military history as World War II ended in 1945.

Yes, people in Japan throng to sites associated with suicides — way back in World War II. Japan has a fascination with ‘kamikaze’ pilots, who mounted suicidal attacks against Allied militaries during ...

DHAKA: Japanese officials in Bangladesh are preparing the bodies of 23 soldiers who died during World War II to return them home after more than 80 years, exhumation teams said on Monday (Nov 25).

Excavation work at the Mainamati War Cemetery in Cumilla, has revealed the remains of 23 World War II Japanese soldiers from among the 24 buried there. "Each grave was carefully excavated. However, no ...

A group of 199 members of an Imperial Japanese Army infantry regiment died during ... planes that sank beneath the waves during World War II, have mostly been left intact, so they can decay ...