On December 7, 1941, Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor. Maps, both historic and newly created by National Geographic, yield new insights into the full scope of Japan's battle plans for the day ...

They participated in every significant battle during that time, including the Battle of the Bulge. Many of the young men who played in that transplanted Rose Bowl served their country during the war.

The first of two Crosstown softball games is Thursday, weather permitting, with a 5 p.m. start on Glacier High School’s diamond. Forest Service plan for Flathead River management gets mixed ...

Some 80 days later the battle was over, at a cost of 110,000 Japanese killed, and 10,000 taken prisoner. The US Army and Marines lost 7,613 men, with ... commanded Italians’ loyalty for more than two ...

His order was based on war minister Hideki Tojo’s “senjinkun” military code created in 1941. The code said that soldiers should “not live to be humiliated by becoming a prisoner of war.” According to ...

The walls close in on Hideki Tojo. The General turned Prime Minister takes hands-on control of the military, with catastrophic consequences. Emperor Hirohito pulls the plug. With Tojo forced out ...

Major General Hideki Tojo takes command of the secret police - the Kempeitai. The Imperial Japanese Army invades China and terrorises the civilian population. Kempeitai operatives set up a secret ...

General Hideki Tojo led Japan into World War Two and oversaw some of the most horrific war crimes in recorded history. Tojo did not hold absolute power, but he more than earns his place at this table.

Outstanding among Americans for accomplishment in battle stood the name of Admiral William Halsey, ... Premier Hideki Tojo emerged as a character worthy of his nickname: The Razor. He, ...

On Dec. 23, 1948, former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were hanged in Tokyo under sentence of the Allied War Crimes Commission.

But Premier Hideki Tojo, warning the Japanese that their shortage of shipping is serious, described Japan’s sea problem in terms much like those which the U.S. Navy uses on the same subject.

They include soldiers, war-time nurses, students who entered into battle, and those who committed suicide in shame at the end of World War II. At the centre of the shrine's controversy is the fact ...