Sergeant David Akui walked along Waimanalo Beach on the morning of Dec. 8, 1941, and spotted what he thought was a sea turtle ...

In a small urban park in Taiwan, more than 4,000 names are etched into a granite wall -- most of them British and American servicemen held by the Japanese during World War II. The sombre memorial sits ...

Johnston will be buried in Augusta in the spring.

ENID, Okla. — One of the facts often overlooked in stories about World War II is that there were about 5,000 American civilians in the Philippines who were imprisoned when the Japanese took over the ...

World War II US Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi survived two chest wounds from Japanese gunfire, the Bataan Death March, ...

Dozens of relatives of former Dutch prisoners of war who died, suffered abuses and starvation while being held in one of Japan's largest wartime prison camps in Nagasaki, gathered at a former campsite ...

A U.S. Army soldier who earned the prestigious Medal of Honor during World War II has been accounted for more than eight ...

A man walks past the names of prisoners of war etched into granite at the Taiwan POW Memorial and Peace Park - Copyright AFP I-Hwa Cheng A man walks past the names of ...