By Jon Diamond
Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto was not the only gambler in Imperial Japan’s military hierarchy. Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, appointed commander of the Imperial Japanese Army’s (IJA) 25th Army on November 2, 1941, to lead the invasion of Malaya and Singapore, also took risks to capture the prized British territory   More »

The bloody fall of Shanghai to the Japanese in 1937 led to the Rape of Nanking and the eventual merger of the Sino-Japanese War into WWII.   More »

A secret mission to Rome for General Maxwell Taylor of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division narrowly averted disaster in the Italian campaign.   More »

The World War 1 destroyers employed by the U.S. led directly to America’s dominance in the 20th century’s most decisive naval battles.   More »

By David H. Lippman
In the darkness, the two American submarines moved toward the hostile beach, inching carefully through badly marked waters. They surfaced well before dawn, and the Marine Raiders and submarine crews began bringing up rubber boats from below, inflating them on deck, installing outboard motors, and filling them   More »

Shanghai’s infamous Bridge House Hotel was a place of torture and death for untold numbers of Chinese and Allied prisoners.   More »

The savage final land battle between “the eagle and the sun” was America’s longest and bloodiest campaign in the Pacific Theater.   More »

The Japanese conquest of the Chinese city occurred will before the acknowledged beginning of World War II.   More »

With the world watching from the nearby settlement, a single chinese regiment prepared to face the fury of an entire Japanese Army at Shanghai.   More »

Thousands of Koreans were forced to serve in the Japanese Army or provide labor during World War II.   More »