With Germany upset about how WWI ended and Japan upset about a lack-of-access to much-needed natural resources, another war sent the world into chaos between 1939-1945. Stories in this collection are about some of those events.
NOTICE: THIS VIDEO CLIP ABOUT A WORLD WAR II BATTLE COMBINES HISTORICAL FOOTAGE, FROM THE U.
NOTICE: THIS VIDEO CLIP ABOUT A WORLD WAR II BATTLE COMBINES HISTORICAL FOOTAGE, FROM THE U.S. National Archives with interviews and recreated scenes.
To reach American lines, the beach-battle survivor has to swim four miles in shark-infested waters.
Four thousand more Japanese troops secretly arrive at Guadalcanal in late August, 1942.
Who was Hirohito? What was he like as a boy? \What are his family roots? Did Japanese emperors always possess great power?
History records that Hirohito seemed to be in a good mood on the day Pearl Harbor was attacked. Historians argue that when he approved the attack, he ...
On the 70th anniversary of VJ Day, people still wonder whether Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, was responsible for Japan's role in WWII. To his people, Hi...
On August 15, 1945 - just before noon - the Japanese people heard their Emperor's voice for the first time. He was telling them to "bear the unbearabl...
In the spring of 1946, pressure mounted to try Hirohito for war crimes.
On the 6th of August, 1945, the world saw the first use of an atomic bomb when America used the device against Japan by dropping the nuclear weapon on...
What was it like to be a crewman aboard the Enola Gay, the plane which dropped the world's first atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima?
A story of hope, amidst all the heartbreak and devastation in Hiroshima, following a nuclear blast.
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