A new traveling exhibit tells the story of Japanese American soldiers who fought for the U.S. in World War II, even as their ...

On September 15th, 1944, the U.S. 1st Marine Division landed on the island of Peleliu, expecting a short, brutal assault to ...

A team of 15 specialist divers dove into waters off the coast of the Philippines last month—initiating a forensic recovery operation that one Pentagon scientist said could take "months or years." ...

The Pentagon has launched one of its largest-ever underwater recovery missions to retrieve American ...

The aftermath of the Second World War was incredibly chaotic and missing Japanese soldiers that turned up years later weren’t that rare initially. One of the most curious cases must have been that of ...

Robert Hunt was a torpedoman on the USS Tambor. He ran 12 consecutive war patrols in the Pacific and never fully shook what those missions felt like. "I was just sure I was going to die," he recalled ...

Born the day before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Toshiko “Tonko” Doi of Chicago was just a baby when she and her family were forced into Japanese incarceration camps by the United States government, ...

In the days and months following the attack on Pearl Harbor, drawing the U.S. into World War II, thousands of people of Japanese descent in the U.S. were forced from their homes and into incarceration ...

Eighty-four years after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the order that locked up 120,000 Japanese Americans in concentration camps, the community marked the anniversary last week with ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A local man trying to learn more about his family's heritage has turned the experience into a documentary. It is called GAMAN, A Japanese American Family's Journey to Reclaim Their ...