Ishiba statement tries to address Japan’s failure to avoid war

Outgoing Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Oct. 10 released a statement of personal reflections to mark the 80th anniversary ...
Capital Gazette

1940 Naval Academy alumnus recalls WWII experience, Japanese surrender ceremony

McLEAN, Va. — There were too many people on deck for him to see the Japanese officials walk onto the USS Missouri, but Robert Kaufman remembers watching them surrender. Hundreds of men from dozens of ...

Japan PM Ishiba issues message to mark 80 years since end of WWII

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru on Friday issued a message to mark 80 years since the end of World War Two. He ...

Retro Louisville: Jeffboat helps build ships for World War II in the 1940s

Coined by the military as "landing ship, tanks," or LSTs, U.S. forces deployed ships from southern Indiana to the Pacific ...
PBS

History to Know Before You Watch World on Fire Season 2

The World War II period drama World on Fire shares stories of ordinary people in extraordinary times. But what timely events from the war actually happened that can inform what you’ll see in Season 2?