Here’s What You Need To Remember: Perhaps the biggest consequence of the fall of Singapore was the destruction of Britain’s Asian empire. Depleted by the First World War and then squeezed dry ...

In 1940, 19-year-old Clavell joined Britain's Royal Artillery to fight in World War II and was sent to Singapore to fight the Japanese advance across Asia. He never made it; his transport was sunk ...

To this day, Japan and Russia do not have a peace treaty for the end of World War II hostilities as Japan still claims several of the southernmost Kuril Islands. 17. Singapore ...

World War II veteran Ira Rigger recounted his time as a U.S. Navy “Seabee” with the 301st Construction Battalion in the… November 11, 2020 WWII Memorial Veterans Day Wreath Laying Ceremony ...

During World War II, thousands of Japanese Americans fought for the U.S. against Japan, now their story is finally being told ...

Smoke rises after a World War II-era aerial bomb was detonated at a construction site in Singapore on September 26, 2023. Roslan Rahman / AFP via Getty Images Late last month, specialists safely ...

The USS Lexington Museum in Texas handed over a Japanese soldier's Good Luck Flag, carried during World War II, to a nonprofit organization for its return to the man's family.

TOKYO — Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two this year, offered flowers and prayers on Thursday at a memorial to those who died ...