What does an American hero look like? Neither shy California farm boy Koji Kimura nor lippy smart aleck Tamio Takahashiwould fit the typical profile of a champion of freedom. Yet these brave men — ...

Toei Co.'s Fumio Yoshimura says Japan's declining population has forced the 'Kamen Rider' studio to turn their attentions to ...

An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...

The British government claimed that eating carrots helped its fighter pilots shoot down German planes at night. In truth, the ...

He was a member of a segregated unit in the Pacific Northwest that fought forest fires set off by Japanese balloon bombs.

Germany's final major offensive on the Western Front -- but to his everlasting good fortune, he was not involved in the most ...

After his plane was shot down, Glenn H. Hodak was sent to a military prison in Tokyo, where he was killed by U.S. firebombing ...

I am writing you about a World War II hero from Rural Hall, Forsyth County who is perhaps all but forgotten now.

A look back to March 1975 for the debut of Marvel's World War II superhero team, the Invaders, starring Captain America, ...

Born from the trauma of World War II, this bow-wearing cartoon icon became a powerful tool for diplomacy, reinvention, and ...

Gentle, true story about finding love, hope in prison camp.

Vietnam veterans’ recordings, videos, photographs, drawings, letters and other documents are stored by the Library of ...