A photographed journey in the land of the rising sun reveals how japan preserves centuries-old tradition, while at the same ...

The brutal lessons of Okinawa profoundly shaped Allied strategy in 1945. There, deeply entrenched Japanese defenses, kamikaze ...

World War II was decided by more than strategy and manpower. The weapons each side brought to the battlefield often ...

Paul Tibbets of Quincy, Illinois, began his military career 89 years ago, leading to his role piloting the Enola Gay over ...

The 2023 film 'Oppenheimer' depicts the life of American physicist Julius Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967), who led the development of nuclear weapons during World War II. The following March, it won ...

Lewis’s account, which he wrote during and after the bombing, has just been put up for sale by Dan Whitmore, a rare book dealer in Pasadena, California, who is handling it on consignment for the ...

Capt. Robert A. Lewis, the co-pilot of the Enola Gay, scribbled thoughts in a notebook while the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan.

Hiroshima, Feb. 18 (Jiji Press)--The main tower of Hiroshima Castle will close on March 22 due to aging, marking the end of public access inside the building after it was destroyed by the 1945 U.S.

The Gloster Meteor, Britain’s first operational jet fighter, was developed under strict secrecy during the Second World War.

A question asked after a lecture turned into a 13-year dialogue between an atomic bomb survivor and a descendant of a hibakusha, which produced lessons for the world in these turbulent times in a ...

Operation Hailstone, the two-day carrier assault launched 82 years ago this week, demolished Japan's largest overseas naval installation and sent more than 40 ships beneath the waves.