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 »

General Claire Chennault led the Flying Tigers of the American Volunteer Group against the Japanese.   More »

The Japanese Long Lance torpedo proved to be the nemesis of U.S. ships in the Solomons.   More »

In a misguided mission, almost 2,000 Canadians were sent to the Far East, arriving just prior to the outbreak of a hopeless battle.   More »

Colonel Hiromishi Yahara was third in command of the Japanese defenses on Okinawa. Read all about his story below.   More »

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 »