The Japanese began to bomb American bases in the Philippines hours after the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor that launched the United States into World War II. By the spring of 1942, Japanese ...

On October 24, 1944, the U.S. Navy unknowingly sailed into a cunning Japanese trap at Leyte Gulf as Admiral Halsey pursued what he thought was the main enemy fleet. With General MacArthur’s troops ...

In December 1944, Pfc. Dirk Vlug was manning a critical roadblock on a strategically important road in the Philippines when the Japanese launched a (relatively) massive assault against his position.

The fate of the Pacific Theater of War had nearly been sealed in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. US forces had done the impossible. They had taken down over 600 Japanese warplanes leaving Japan's ...

This Sunday kicks off a new season of Forbidden History on Science Channel. The series travels the world and brings back — via compelling stories and new research — the most debated, unknown, and ...

A shipwreck discovered four years ago in the Sulu Sea off the coast of the Philippines has been identified as a U.S. aircraft carrier sunk by a Japanese Kamikaze plane in 1945, the Navy announced.

(CNN) — A ship that US and Philippine forces planned to sink beat them to it. A former US World War II-era warship, which survived two of the Pacific War’s most important battles, was supposed to go ...