The flag was donated in 1994 and displayed at the museum aboard the USS Lexington, a WWII aircraft carrier ... to the descendants of Japanese servicemembers killed in the war.

Henry Diedrich poses with his memoir, “Voyages Thru Calm Yet Stormy Seas,” at his home at Rock Island’s Friendship Manor. The ...

Japan is holding a memorial ceremony on Sunday near the Sado Island Gold Mines, which were listed this summer as a UNESCO ...

A Japanese mayor said it is "extremely regrettable" that South Korea pulled out of a memorial ceremony Sunday to honor ...

What You Need to Know: Japan faced insurmountable odds in WWII against the U.S. due to America's industrial and military ...

A 103-year-old Navy veteran in Rock Island was there when one of the most iconic World War II photos was taken. "I saw the flag raised on ... nation into war with Japan. Its sunken wreck and ...

James Holmes holds the J. C. Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College and served on the faculty of the University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs. A former U ...

Japan faced insurmountable odds in WWII against the U.S. due to ... that flew an enemy flag. By 1945, American boats dismembered the island empire by severing the shipping lanes connecting its ...

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“That would have been just a couple months of a flag and then we’d have to replace it. When I found out that he was a World War II photographer working behind the scenes — I really didn’t ...