When we talk about the bombing of Japan during the World War II, we usually focus on Hiroshima ... they created a remarkable set of maps showing the devastation wrought on Japan from the air.

On November 7, 1937, the Los Angeles Examiner published a prescient map predicting how Imperial Japan could attack the US during World War II. Created by Howard A. Burke, the map imagined a ...

Tucked away in the attic of a Massachusetts home was not one, not two — but 22 pieces of stolen Japanese antiques, including a hand-drawn map ... during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II ...

Tyler Smith, a recreation planner from San Francisco, recently climbed a forested mountainside in western Tokyo to honor the ...

Japan is commemorating 70 years since the US plane, the Enola Gay, dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima during the Second ... the easy way with visual map animations." ...

Maps, both historic and ... Japanese offensive that expanded World War II enormously. No nation invested more in naval air power before World War II than Japan. Admiral Yamamoto drew heavily ...

Golodoff was the last survivor among 41 residents imprisoned in Japan after Japanese troops captured remote Attu Island during World War II. He was 3 when the island was taken. He died Nov. 17 in ...

Her father, Harold Vick, was a tank crewman who was captured in the Philippines in the early days of World War II. He died ... used POW labor during the war, usually paying Japan’s Imperial ...

An unexploded bomb dropped during World War II and ... Unexploded bombs in Japan not uncommon Finding unexploded ordnance from World War II is not an uncommon occurrence in Japan, given the ...

The wreckage of a U.S. submarine from World War II was ... Japan — after disappearing almost 80 years ago. The USS Albacore, credited with sinking at least 10 enemy vessels during the war ...

Gregory and Elizabeth were the last two living residents of Attu, Alaska, whose entire population was captured by the Japanese during World War II and sent to Japan until being liberated after the ...