Unexploded American ordnances from World War II are still buried all over Japan, though they rarely detonate. Last year, ...

An unexploded U.S. bomb from World War II suddenly detonated at Miyazaki Airport in southwestern Japan on Wednesday. The blast caused significant disruption, as it left a large crater in a taxiway ...

Set to detonate about an hour to a week after impact, a bomb dropped in the later stages of World War II didn't explode for ... cases previously confirmed in Japan also involved bombs fitted ...

A long-buried World War Two bomb exploded ... says the US military carried out an air raid on the airfield in 1945. After that, US forces seized the land. It was later returned to Japan and ...

An American World War II warship sunk by Japanese forces in a fierce ... was withheld to coincide with Veterans Day. More than 200 US servicemen went down with the USS Edsell after a fearsome ...

Before the war, they were all territories, not part of any of the 48 states that existed at the time. Alaska Alaska didn’t become a state until 1959, so during World War II it was still a territory.