Remarkably, the crew of the USS Barb did sink a Japanese train during World War II—though not with torpedoes. In 1945, under Commander Eugene Fluckey, the submarine conducted a daring raid in which a ...

Learn how potatoes played a surprising role in a WWII submarine battle, becoming one of the quirkiest little known legends in ...

In the minds of many Americans today, it can be difficult to fully grasp the utter destruction of land and human life the world experienced during the Second World War. However, some of the machines ...

The American forces had conquered the island of Okinawa at a tremendous cost. Germany had surrendered, but the fight was not ...

Not even three months after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, Americans on the west coast thought they were under attack. Sirens wailed across Los Angeles in the early morning hours of Feb. 25, ...

The “Dancing Mouse”—the Clemson-class destroyer more formally known as the USS Edsall— and its more-than-200 servicemen went down at the hands of the Japanese military on March 1, 1942, during World ...

Today, Mr Osman, who moved to Leicester in the 70s, is among few living survivors of the little-known tragedy that claimed ...

U-boats stalked the coast. Balloon bombs were set off to start wildfires. These assaults on the U.S. mainland caused destruction and panic—when they weren’t covered up. The S.S. Pennsylvania Sun was ...

When most people think of the Pacific Theater of World War II, they envision tropical islands, heat, and jungle combat.

Hegemonic and imperialist Japan in the late 19th and early 20th centuries posed many challenges to China. In the 19th century ...

You may be familiar with the works of Thomas Hart Benton, the Neosho, Mo.-born painter and muralist who became part of the ...

From China’s point of view, the Japanese Prime Minister’s remarks on Taiwan test a red line - a trigger that sets this ...