WWII Factions The Japanese Army. Posted: February 5, 2025 | Last updated: March 8, 2025. The Imperial Japanese Army was victorious early on in the Pacific theatre.

Simple History. Imperial Japanese Army Infantryman - The WWII Warrior. Posted: April 3, 2025 | Last updated: April 3, 2025. Trained in the shadow of samurai tradition, these soldiers were taught ...

Winnifred "Winnie" Mills, who at 21 enlisted in the Army during WWII in February 1943, worked as a cryptographer, decoding Japanese messages.

In all, 1,280 remains of Japanese war-dead, including six on Okinawa, have been identified by DNA tests since 2003, the health ministry said. The remains of around 14,000 people are stored in the ...

At the same time, their Japanese opponents had yet to fully address the threat that these underwater marauders posed to the ...

One Japanese Soldier Continued to Fight for 30 Years After WWII. Kanji Tsuda Onoda: 10,000 Days in the Jungle." ... he was instructed to hold the remote island until the Japanese Army returned.

A U.S. Army colonel’s great-grandson returned a “good luck” flag Wednesday to the family of a Japanese soldier who carried it into battle during World War II.

Police in Ashland are trying to figure out how a World War II-era grenade ended up in a donation bin at a ... The bomb squad identified the device as a Japanese Type 99 grenade from World ...

The Nisei soldiers who fought WWII enemies abroad—and were seen as enemies back home. The U.S. tried to ban them from military service, but these Japanese-American veterans ultimately became ...

Navy pilot Arthur Hibray came back from World War II with a souvenir Japanese military rifle. But the weapon went missing shortly after his return from the war. Decades later, his son Blake Hibray ...

The war in the Pacific may have ended on Sept. 2, 1945, for just about everyone, but for Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer Hiroo Onoda, the conflict persisted for nearly three decades.