Of the more than 11 million American armed service members who served during World War II, only about 66,000 are still alive today. Chief video correspondent Graham Flanagan interviewed 106-year-old ...

A shipwreck off the coast of Okinawa, Japan has been identified as that of USS Mannert L. Abele, a U.S. Navy destroyer that was sunk by a "human-guided kamikaze bomb" during World War II, authorities ...

During the Second World War, the Japanese had quite a different war ethos than the Allied powers and even their own allies such as the Germans and Italians. During the later stages of the war, they ...

Following the Second World War, many Nazis fled to Latin America or were recruited by foreign powers. Throughout the post-war ...

A shipwreck discovered four years ago in the Sulu Sea off the coast of the Philippines has been identified as a U.S. aircraft carrier sunk by a Japanese Kamikaze plane in 1945, the Navy announced.

Frank Mirabella was supposed to be among the last wave of soldiers assaulting the beach of Iwo Jima during the United State's decisive invasion of the Japanese island during World War II. But when a ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara launched a publicity campaign for a film celebrating the bravery of its wartime "kamikaze" suicide pilots on Friday, as Japan wrangled again with ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa. The suicide attack instantly ...

The Navy has formally identified the wreckage of one of the largest U.S. ships sunk in a World War II kamikaze attack. The discovery off the coast of the Philippines has special resonance for one man ...

BERN TWP., Pa - With a wave, a salute, and a traditional greeting -- a meeting decades in the making began at a community center in Bern Township. "Just normal talking,” said WWII Veteran Ed ...