The first kamikaze

At the climax of fighting in the Pacific, the USA revealed its ultimate weapon and ushered in a new era of warfare

In the days and hours before October 7, intelligence that should have made its way up the IDF chain of command didn’t reach people who could have connected the dots

The devastating attack on Japan’s capital set a terrible new precedent for aerial mass destruction

At the end of WWII the Japanese Imperial Army Air Force was conscripted into the Royal Air Force in Southeast Asia

On the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan, Charles Harris looks back at the 14th Army’s extraordinary campaign and the remarkable characters who shaped it

The first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan by an American B-29 bomber, preceding the country’s capitulation in WWII. Here navigator Theodore Van Kirk recalls his experience of the day that changed history