The travails of empire – stoked by anticolonial nationalism in, for example, India, Indonesia and Vietnam, and Communist ...

On December 8th, Japan launched its first attack on airfields north of Manila following the Pearl Harbor attack. General Douglas MacArthur, commanding US and Filipino forces, executed a series of ...

A cinematic tale of survival through warfare, captivity by the Imperial Japanese Army and a torpedoing at sea.

Eighty-three years after his death, U.S. Army Pvt. Harry David Bordner of Butte, who was a Japanese prisoner of war during World War II, has been officially accounted for.

Eight decades after he died, the Department of Defense confirmed it had positively identified the remains of Capt. Willibald Bianchi, a Medal of Honor recipient who went “beyond the call of duty in ...

U.S. Army Capt. Willibald Charles Bianchi, 29, of New Ulm, earned the Medal of Honor. He was killed on Jan. 9, 1945. Army Capt. Willibald Charles Bianchi, of New Ulm, Minnesota, survived the Bataan ...

Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi survived the Bataan Death March and nearly four years of captivity before being killed on Jan. 9, 1945. (U.S. Army) The remains of Medal of Honor recipient U.S. Army Capt.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV/Gray News) – The remains of a World War II soldier from Missouri were finally welcomed home more than 80 years after his death. A plane carrying the remains of U.S. Army Sgt.

BALTIMORE, Md. (WBFF) — The Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport community joined state and federal officials Friday afternoon to welcome home U.S. Army Private First Class ...

FLORIEN, La. – The remains of a U.S. Army serviceman who died as a prisoner of war during World War II will be buried Tuesday with full military honors. U.S. Army Pvt. Blanchard E. Pruitt, 19, of ...