More than 4,000 people on Monday filled an Okinawa park to mark the 80th anniversary of Japan's final WWII battle.

American airmen trekked to a hilltop to remember fallen bomber crews and Japanese citizens killed in a World War II air raid ...

Nearly 80 years after they were captured and killed in the final days of World War II, dozens of U.S. airmen were honored ...

Okinawa marked the day when one of the harshest battles of World War II fought on the southern island ended 80 years ago ...

Trekking through mud and rocks in Japan's humid Okinawan jungle, Takamatsu Gushiken reached a slope of ground where human ...

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On December 7, 1941, Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor. Maps, both historic and newly created by National Geographic, yield new insights into the full scope of Japan's battle plans for the day ...

Although he had close calls, Connecticut World War II veteran Edward J. Apicella Sr. said he survived the hellish battle of Okinawa physically unscathed. But the Waterbury native, his voice breaking ...

European officials, who have been effectively sidelined in the war between Israel and Iran, will try to exert limited leverage in a meeting with Iranian officials on Friday in Geneva.