In the final weeks of World War II, a Japanese torpedo sank an American heavy cruiser. Only 316 of the 900 sailors who survived the initial attack were ultimately rescued ...

Milton Kramer was killed in action during the sinking of the Arisan Maru on Oct. 24, 1944 in the East China Sea.

The USS Tang was a Balao -class submarine constructed during the Second World War. The building contract was awarded to Mare ...

Historian John McManus rates the accuracy of World War II battles in "Masters of the Air," "Pearl Harbor," and "Flags of Our ...

Acting Navy Commander-in-Chief Admiral Aleksandr Moiseyev presided over a ceremony Wednesday at the headquarters of the Russian Pacific Fleet's nuclear submarines in Vilyuchinsk on the Kamchatka ...

In August 1945, North Field launched the two bombers that carried out the first and only wartime use of nuclear weapons in ...

Historians have found that a broadcast from U.S.-based Voice of America (VOA) was the first to inform the Korean public of ...

These are the best World War II movies of the past eight decades, according to a Military.com survey of U.S. service members ...

has disclosed a new document about the information of technicians in the Japanese germ-warfare detachments during World War ...

During the Mid-Autumn Festival holidays, one documentary film The Sinking of Lisbon Maru garnered widespread acclaim in China ...

Under the Chinese national flag, 76-year-old Japanese man Kuroi Akio removed his shoes and socks and knelt down to kowtow ...

Isao Takahata was nine years old when the firebombs fell. On the night of June 29 1945, incendiary weapons rained on Okayama ...