Part I: Meiji restoration: 1868 -- Empires in conflict -- Part II: Japan versus America and the world: 1931-1941 -- Ultra-nationalism and the death of democracy -- Japan versus China: From phoney war ...

Beach assault, Saipan, June 1944. USGov PD. June 15, 1944 U.S. Marines and Army troops, supported by a massive fleet, invade Saipan in the Mariana Islands of the Central Pacific. June 19, 1944 Japan's ...

This ambitious and successful work comprehensively analyzes the Allied air offensive against Japan that began with ace pilot James Doolittle’s raid of April 1942. The Army Air Corps’s deployment in ...

The Battle of Midway unfolded over four days in June 1942, some 1,100 miles west of Hawaii, six months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The war would drag on for another three years, with ...

TEXARKANA, Texas -- World War II veterans are leaving us quickly. Of the 16 million who fought in World War II, there are about 160,000 still alive today. James Upchurch, 97, is a Navy veteran who ...

Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WASH. — As the U.S. Army recently commemorated the 80th Anniversary of D-Day, it's also an opportune moment to reflect on the storied history of America's First Corps and its ...

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This episode examines the Battle of Midway, the decisive 1942 clash that turned the tide of the Pacific War. We trace how U.S. codebreakers uncovered Japan’s plan to ambush the American fleet, setting ...