Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.

He’d been given command of the US bomber force in the Pacific after earlier B-29 raids, using high-explosive bombs dropped from 30,000 feet, were ineffective at crippling the Japanese war machine.

Its invasion of China beginning in 1931 set the stage for World War II in the Pacific and the destruction that would eventually be meted out by the US and its allies, they said.

World War II Kumagaya firebombing survivor Kazue Hojo, 87, and Shoichi Yoshida, administrator for a local civic group devoted to preserving the history of the bombing, locate her house on a map of ...

The World War II Aviation Museum recently flew a restored plane that was recovered from the bottom of a Washington lake more ...

World War II broke out just two decades after the Great War (1914 - 1918), as America was recovering from the Great Depression.

A Detroit solider who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II has been identified and recovered.