Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many of the Pacific Islands in hard-fought naval and amphibious battles before ending the war ...

U.S. Army Lt. Col. Louis E. Roemer was taken prisoner in the Philippines when the Japanese in May 1942 captured the island fortress of Corregidor, after American forces lost the Bataan Peninsula.

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 ...

A soldier from Delaware has been accounted for after he was killed during World War II, according to the Defense POW/MIA ...