In June 1944 during World War II, Japanese tanks charged Marine lines on Saipan believing their armor would protect them. The ...

In 1942, during World War II, U.S. Marines on Guadalcanal were being erased by unseen Japanese forces in the jungle. Lieutenant Colonel William Whaling answered with a radical idea: small hunter teams ...

At a potentially historic business and diplomatic conference held last week at the East-West Center in Manoa, leaders from Pacific Island nations and territories talked to American business leaders ...

Sgt. Ross F. Gray carried a satchel charge though a minefield while under heavy Japanese fire. What followed became one of the most extraordinary individual actions of the Pacific War, earning Gray ...

Aboard the Battleship New Jersey, surrounded by friends, family and the ship’s important legacy, John “Johnny Q” Quinesso Sr. marked a milestone: his 100th ...

Lt. Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi arrived on Iwo Jima in June 1944. Over the next eight months, he built one of the most elaborate defense systems in the Pacific, which would lead to one of the costliest ...

On today's Perspective, Reed Scherer hopes to inspire you to fight for American values.

The failure to thoroughly reckon with Japan's wartime crimes after World War II (WWII) has left militarism dormant, only to erupt some day in the future if going unchecked. Although Emperor Hirohito's ...

If it wasn’t for his new neighbors back when he was a kid, Darrell Brogdon might have never graced the airwaves across Kansas. While growing up in Kerrville, Texas, — a small town northwest of San ...

The Waxhaw Police Department escorted World War II and Korean War veteran Maj. Charles Rose on Feb. 26 to the Veterans Coffee ...

The U.S. national debt is on pace to break a record set after World War II in four years, while annual budget deficits are projected to balloon to $3 trillion a year a decade from now, according to a ...

Adjunct Professor of History and Affiliated Faculty, USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Cultures, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences The Mellon Foundation has provided ...