ON her sixth birthday 80 years ago, Shizuko Nishio clung to her mother as US B-29 bombers started a firestorm that turned ...

“How dare you carry out bombing attacks ... Isao Arai, 87, of Yokohama researched the various locations in Japan where B-29 bombers crashed. Arai wanted to explain to the visiting former ...

The B-29 would go on to be used in the Korean War of the 1950s. However, high-altitude winds made it impossible to bomb Japan ...

People in Tokyo have remembered the victims of the 1945 US air raid on the Japanese capital in a memorial service held exactly 80 years after the incident.

Following a series of executive orders from President Donald Trump, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has directed the ...

II. A B-29 Superfortress airplane, part of US armed forces' 444th Bombardment Group (very heavy), was returning to its base ...

On her sixth birthday 80 years ago, Shizuko Nishio clung to her mother as U.S. B-29 bombers started a firestorm that turned humans to ash and Tokyo into a wasteland. Five months before the United ...

In the small hours of a warm summer day, the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay flew from ... another nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. A week later, Japan surrendered. The bomb brought World ...

On her sixth birthday 80 years ago, Shizuko Nishio clung to her mother as US B-29 ... by Japan's surrender, the firebombing of Tokyo is often overlooked. Even the similar attacks by the Americans and ...

The crew’s Boeing B-29 Superfortress was part of a U.S. air ... the Imperial Japanese Army’s western district right before Japan's surrender in August 1945. About 15 people attended the ...