Originally designed as a battleship, the Imperial Japanese Navy's Kaga was later converted into a pioneering aircraft carrier that played a central role in shaping Japan’s naval air strategy. Its ...

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James “Jim” Ward came to Kemper Military School from Gilman, a small farming community in central Iowa. His parents owned and ...

NPR speaks with Jonathan Horn about his new book, "The Fate of the Generals," which tells the story of two commanders in World War II who received the same medal but found honor on different paths.

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"The flags of the allies," says one message, are now floating over the imperial palace ... to Paris says the Empress is surrounded by Japanese troops. Little credence is, however, given to ...

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He attended the Imperial Japanese Army Academy and the Army War College ... The students and teachers were given little Japanese flags and instructed to wave them as Tojo passed by in his motorcade.

Japan and the Japan-U.S. alliance lost a pillar of support when former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage passed ...