As John Hirst put it in a brilliant, recently republished Black Inc essay on Curtin’s wartime prime ministership that set the ...

Cary Cox and Holt Rast were teammates at Alabama in the late 1930s, and later served with distinction in the U.S. Army during ...

Prior to World War II, the Imperial Japanese Navy embraced the Kantai Kessen strategy, which envisioned victory through a ...

In one of World War II’s lesser-known diplomatic twists, Poland declared war on Japan despite having no direct conflict in the Pacific. This video unpacks the symbolic and strategic reasons behind the ...

Along with decent second-quarter corporate earnings so far, the week's economic health checks have been enough to lift the ...

For Americans who were awaiting the release of the Nintendo Switch 2, the delay of U.S. pre-orders for the gaming console ...

Nagasaki cathedral has blessed the final piece to complete its restoration nearly 80 years after being destroyed by the second U.S. atomic bomb dropped on Japan: a reproduction of its lost bell restor ...

Private First Class Norman R. Thomas, a World War II veteran who went missing in action, was laid to rest in Chilton County ...

Thomas was a member of 48th Material Squadron, 5th Air Base Group, when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in ...

Russian and North Korean officials violated U.N. resolutions regarding arms, troops and refined petroleum shipments ...

Zamperini's dream of participating in the 1940 Tokyo Olympics was thwarted by World War II. The games were canceled and he traded his track shorts for a military uniform, thus commencing his second ...

John Hersey was a 32-year-old reporter who returned from Japan with in 1946 with a groundbreaking story that challenged U.S. government’s version of its atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, showing the ...