In August 1945, the Soviet Union launched a massive and largely forgotten offensive into Japanese-occupied Manchuria. Known ...

Days after Hiroshima, Stalin declared war on Japan. In Manchuria, the Red Army unleashed one of the fastest offensives in history, annihilating Japan’s Kwantung Army. This episode follows the Soviet ...

Tsushima helped a rising Asian power consolidate its regional standing, set that power on the path to destruction in World War II, and fired anti-imperial passions the world over. The U.S. Navy can ...

History is seldom tidy. Eras overlap and unfinished business from one period lingers into the next. World War II was a war like no other in the magnitude of its effects on the lives of people and the ...

It is the most numerous military aircraft ever produced and the second largest number of all types, including civil, ...

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 ...