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.

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.