Members of Japan Self Defense Force stand guard as an airplane carrying Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako arrives at the island of Iwo Jima, now officially called Iwo To in Japan ...

Service members and JROTC students marched 14 miles through the desert in memory of the brutal Bataan Death March during WWII, which left thousands dead.

The National Cemetery Interment Control Forms for Rock Island National Cemetery give Private Staver’s date of death as May 28 ...

Army Maj. James J. O’Donovan, a native of Cohoes, was finally laid to rest 80 years after he died in a prisoner of war camp ...

O’Donovan, a native of Cohoes, N.Y., was a member of the 3rd Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, when Japanese forces invaded ... The U.S. Army Honor Guard rendered full military funeral honors ...

Army Private James Stanley Mitchell left Hamilton City when he enlisted in early 1941. He died as a prisoner of war in 1943.

April 16, 1945 marked the start of the top-secret U.S.-Soviet operation “Project Hula,” and a Japan-Soviet territorial ...

On top of the 249.4 million yen, the latest estimate of 1.66 billion yen includes: about 800 million yen in security expenses to mobilize police officers from across Japan to the capital ...

(Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool Photo via AP) Members of Japan Self Defense Force stand guard as an airplane carrying Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako arrives at the island of Iwo Jima, now ...

IWO-TO, Japan (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito visited Iwo Jima on Monday and paid tribute to thousands of Japanese and Americans who died in one of World War II's bloodiest battles. Naruhito and his ...