World War II

In the long term, reconciliation efforts and growing commercial relations with Japan helped dim bitter Pacific War memories in Australia.

The P-38 plane is believed to have crashed after being struck by lightning in November 1944.

At UNESCO, Japan lays bare the difficulties of achieving shared values within the Quad.

At the time, the defense of Manila was the single most consequential event of the Pacific War from the point of view of the law of armed conflict.

The question vexed planners at the time, and has been debated extensively in the years since. 

The Battle of Manila was the largest urban contest of the Pacific War.

Even more than Pearl Harbor, the sinking of the two British battleships served to convince political and naval authorities of the pre-eminence of airpower in the Pacific. 

Divers believe they’d found the wreckage of the the USS Grenadier in the Strait of Malacca.

The missing Japanese make up about half of the 2.4 million soldiers who died overseas during Japan's military rampage across Asia.

75 years later, Japan’s atomic bomb survivors – the hibakusha – still remember the day in devastating detail.

In total, around 365,000 Kyrgyz were mobilized by the Soviet Union to fight against Nazi Germany.