A World War II airman who was taken captive by Japanese forces and died in a prison fire after his plane was shot down has been accounted for, military officials said Wednesday.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff A Dover-Foxcroft soldier who died during World War II after the Imperial ...

Deep within the dense canopy of ancient trees and tangled undergrowth that unfolded over the island of Guadalcanal like a ...

Then 21-year-old US Army Private Willard Merrill was captured by Japanese forces in 1942 while fighting in the Philippines ...

The remains of two U.S. Army Air Forces soldiers killed during World War II, Sgt. R. L. Tyler and Staff Sgt. Hubert Yeary, ...

U.S. Army Private James Stanley Mitchell, who died as a Prisoner of War at a Japanese prison camp in 1943, will have his remains returned to Hamilton City and Chico ...

President Trump has complained the U.S.-Japan defense partnership is one-sided, but with China throwing its weight around, ...

The arrival of the Japanese war brides marked the largest women-only immigration event in U.S. history and by 1960 increased ...

IWO-TO, Japan ... who died in one of World War II's bloodiest battles. Naruhito and his wife, Empress Masako, prayed at three memorial sites — one for the Japanese soldiers, another for ...

Nearly all of Japan's 21,000 soldiers on the island were killed during the fight ... The battle inspired movies and books but is perhaps best associated with one of the most famous photos of World War ...