Priest tells of kamikaze pilot training during WWII
CAMP HANSEN, Okinawa — Paul Saneaki Nakamura prepared three times to carry out a suicide attack for Japan during World War II. It took the country’s near-death for him to find religion and become a...
View ArticleLogistics Leaders Tour Hakozaki Fuel Depot (The United States Navy)
(Source: The United States Navy) By Sky M. Laron, NAVSUP Fleet Logisitcs Center, Yokosuka, Director of Corporate Communications YOKOSUKA, Japan (NNS) -- U.S. Navy logistics leaders toured fueling...
View ArticleCrystal cruise explores World War II history
Tags GuamHiloYokohamaHawaiiHonoluluMissouriTokyoJapan SHARECONNECTTWEETCOMMENTEMAILMORE Cruisers accompanied by expert guides will visit key battlegrounds and sites from World War II's Pacific Theater...
View ArticleKamikaze survivors debunk stereotype in stories of sacrifice
Share PhotoReddit✉ In this April 29, 2015 photo, Yoshiomi Yanai, a survived kamikaze pilot, stands in front of Tsukuba Naval Air Group Base during an exclusive interview with the Associated Press in...
View ArticleMicrosoft co-founder says he found sunken Japan WWII warship
TOKYO (AP) — Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul Allen and his research team have found the wreckage of a massive Japanese World War II battleship off the Philippines near where it sank more...
View ArticleIWO JIMA’S INDELIBLE IMAGE AT 70
NEWPORT BEACH Seventy years ago Monday, five Marines and one Navy corpsman raised an American flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima during the waning months of World War II. For the 23 Marines and 3...
View ArticleThe Battle of Okinawa was the bloodiest battle of the Pacific War
Code-named “Operation Iceberg”, the Battle of Okinawa went down in history as the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific Rim during World War II. The conflict lasted 82 days, beginning on April 1st...
View ArticleOkinawa survivors remember long WWII battle
LODI, Calif. (Tribune News Service) — Charles Martin arrived with the first wave, driving an amphibious tank. He and his brothers in arms were surprised to find little or no resistance. When Allied...
View ArticleAmerican Expedition Finds Sunken Japanese Warship
VOA News American explorer Paul Allen said his research team has found the sunken hull of the Japanese Imperial Navy's massive battleship Musashi, sitting where it was sunk more than 70 years ago by...
View ArticleVets recall service aboard ships built at Kaiser in Vancouver
Seventy years ago, workers at Vancouver's Kaiser Shipyard watched the USS Gambier Bay take form. Hal Berven had a different view of the aircraft carrier while treading water in the Pacific on Oct. 25,...
View ArticleIwo Jima vets mark 70th anniversary
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. Seventy years ago Monday, five Marines and one Navy corpsman raised a U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima during the waning days of World War II. For the 23 Marines and 3...
View ArticlePacific scoreboard: Feb. 21, 2013
Basketball Far East Basketball Championships Boys Division I Thursday at Camp Foster, and Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawa Double-elimination playoffs Seoul American 51, John F. Kennedy 37,...
View ArticleSailor witnessed kamikaze attacks during World War II
At 17, Howard Mercer was on a mortar warship in the South Pacific portion of World War II, and he had a thirst to know all that was going on. “I came to realize there were people in the conning tower...
View Article70 years after WWII / Musashi crew member feels ‘sense of destiny’
The Yomiuri Shimbun A former crew member of the Musashi, a battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy that was sunk by U.S. forces during World War II, said he felt “a sense of destiny” in the apparent...
View ArticleAbe vows faster hunt for Iwo Jima's fallen
TOKYO — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday visited Iwoto Island and pledged to speed up the recovery of the remains of Imperial Japanese Army soldiers killed in the Battle of Iwo Jima, in a pilgrimage...
View ArticleIwo Jima survivor tearfully recalls service, historic WWII battle
APPLE VALLEY, Calif. — John Hixson said tears streamed down his face as he watched five Marines raise the U.S. flag at Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. Almost seven...
View ArticleTalk about knowing your market, Crystal stages WWII theme cruise (Video)
Every cruise line has its niche. Crystal Cruises is one of the few with several appealing characeristics, one of which is its attractiveness to more cerebral seafarers who prefer to expand the mind...
View ArticleStroll through History / Former Kure Naval Arsenal in Hiroshima Prefecture /...
By Akiko Yoshinaga / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff WriterWelding sparks flew from the ship’s hull and echoing sounds of metallic clanging could be heard. The former Kure Naval Arsenal, located in Kure,...
View ArticleJapanese crew member of sunken WWII ship Musashi feels 'sense of destiny'
A former crew member of the Musashi, a battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy that was sunk by U.S. forces during World War II, said he felt "a sense of destiny" in the apparent discovery of the...
View ArticleTop Asian News at 5:00 p.m. GMT
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan's intelligence service says a Pakistani intelligence officer helped the Taliban carry out an attack on parliament earlier this week. Afghan intelligence services...
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