From a crumbling pill box in the UK to a derelict rail line in Hawaii, these are the abandoned World War II places that the ...

Eighty years ago a company of U.S. Army Rangers and Filipino guerrilla fighters conducted the most successful rescue mission ...

The first shots of World War One are fired in Africa ... Although the Germans put up a firm resistance a force of 23,000 Japanese soldiers seizes control. Japan also takes over Germany’s ...

Several weeks earlier, the Palawan Massacre took place in the Philippines, where 139 American POWs were killed by Japanese ...

Pvt. Oscar Avery Cox and other Bataan prisoners of war endured harsh conditions during World War II, including a miles-long march through hell. Despite the adversity, Cox and three fellow POWs decided ...

A new war memorial in Cape Town ... and family members of the soldiers who perished, that the memorial is a reminder of a “shared but difficult past.” About 1.7 million men and women from the ...

CHIBA -- A message of friendship apparently sent to an Imperial Japanese Army lieutenant who served in the Philippines during World War II from a Filipino soldier he met after the war has been ...

He was detained in Siberia by the Soviet Union after World ... Japanese soldiers. Still, she estimates that hundreds of thousands of soldiers suffered from neuropsychiatric disorders during World ...

Nakamura was a 20-year-old Japanese-American when the U.S. entered World War II and then-President ... killing three enemy soldiers in one bunker before charging another. Continuing to press ...

Cape Town — A new war memorial in Cape Town, South Africa, remembers the close to 2,000 casualties who served in Africa during World War ... member of one of the fallen soldiers, was one of ...

(Mainichi/Tamiko Kobayashi) CHIBA -- A message of friendship apparently sent to an Imperial Japanese Army lieutenant who served in the Philippines during World War II from a Filipino soldier he ...

I was 19 when the war began ... Worst still, the soldier saw them, and fired back. They all tried to fight back against just one Japanese soldier, but failed. Fearing for their lives, they ...