Through the early 1900s and up until the official outbreak of World War II, the Japanese ... was a compact tank weighing around 7 tons with just enough space to fit an operating crew, including ...

Eight days later, on Dec. 15, Vlug was manning a roadblock along the main road into the city when five Japanese tanks attacked ... Vlug survived World War II and was discharged on June 14, 1945 ...

When U.S. forces sank the Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Musashi off the Philippines in World War II, about 1,000 of its 2,399 crew members lost their lives. Now, the accounts of 183 of those ...