Several key figures in World War II’s final battles were heroic young Japanese-American men who studied in Minnesota.

The United States Marine Corps’ invasion was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific Theatre, as the Allies fought their way through the Imperial Japanese Army in a bloody 82 day battle. During ...

(CBS) -- The family of a U.S. Marine from downstate Decatur who served in World War II has been reunited ... in the Battle of ...

THE SECOND WORLD WAR sparked ... shows what the war in the air was like both for the terrified aircraft crews and for those on whom the bombs fell. Hirohito’s War: The Pacific War, 1941-1945.

The story is a dramatic interpretation of the real events that took place in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. As with Band of Brothers, each episode opens with excerpts from interviews with ...