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The fighter Japan laughed at in World War II

In 1943, Japanese pilots dismissed a new American fighter as slow, heavy, and inferior. That aircraft was the F6F Hellcat, ...
SlashGear

Every Aircraft Carrier Japan Had Active During World War 2

Soon after the invention and mass adoption of airplanes, governments started used them for war. Suddenly, soldiers had to watch out for flying machines spraying hot lead and dropping bombs. However, ...
Walking Archive on MSN

Inside America’s fire war against Japan in World War II

In the final year of World War II, American forces faced an enemy that refused to fight above ground. Across the Pacific, Japanese troops turned islands into vast underground fortresses, hiding deep ...
The New York Times

Last Soldiers of an Imperial Army Have a Warning for Young Generations

As the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II approaches, only a few veterans of Japan’s brutal war remain. “Never die for Emperor or country,” one advised. As the 80th anniversary of the end of ...
Reuters

Japan minister joins crowds at contentious shrine to mark 80 years since World War Two defeat

TOKYO, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Japan marked the 80th anniversary of its World War Two defeat on Friday, with at least one cabinet minister joining thousands of visitors at a shrine that Japan's Asian ...
IGN

Soldiers: Heroes of World War II

Step onto the battlefields of WWII in the real-time tactics game that laid the foundation for the Men of War series and lead elite units from the American, British, Soviet, or German armies in ...
The New York Times

China, Japan and a New Narrative About World War II

Arguments about history are proliferating as the postwar order led by the United States crumbles. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. In September, China held a military parade to ...