Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a U.S. naval captain ordered his battleship to hold a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot ...

Neil Frye, who was 20 years old when he was killed, was a mess attendant on the USS West Virginia when it was attacked at ...

Despite the successes of the I-19 in the war, Japan was never able to connect these victories with a larger strategy for ...

Last year, the Russian forces lost over 400,000 men in the fighting. But they managed to replace losses on an almost ...

(National Archives) World War II was marked by numerous technical ... as used in the Solomons campaigns of 1942 to 1943. The naval struggle was generally fought at night, pitting Japanese ...