-The two-stage plan, Operations Olympic and Coronet, would have involved more than twice the forces of the Normandy landings and was expected to be unimaginably costly. -Facing a fanatical defense, ...

In the smoldering wake of World War II, few places bore the scars of conflict like Japan. Cities lay in ruins, infrastructure crumbled, and entire populations were left homeless. Into this devastation ...

This is the introduction to The War Room, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter bringing exclusive insights into defence and security. Such commemorations are a reminder of how 1945 helped forge the ...

Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many of the Pacific Islands in hard-fought naval and amphibious battles before ending the war ...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Japanese and American flags flew at half-staff at the home of U.S. Forces Japan on Thursday to mark the 79th anniversary of the end of World War II in the Pacific. On Aug. 15, ...

Our Job in Japan was a United States military training film made in 1945, shortly after World War II. It is the companion to the more famous Your Job In Germany. The film was aimed at American troops ...

** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** Japanese women were expected to be ...

Eighty years later, the scars of the last American firebombing of a Japanese city remain — on the skin of a man who still lives mere yards from where hundreds died, on the surface of a statue of a ...

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