Japanese Canadians were shipped to interior B.C. aboard trains during the Second World War. Picture here, children looking out a train window on their way to internment camps. (National Archives ...
In May 1945, British forces crossed the Irrawaddy River in Burma and engaged a Japanese force, north of the Prome-Taungup road. With the tide of war changing in the allies favor, by May 9 ...
The bomb brought World War Two to a sudden end, but was it right to use it? The bomb was dropped to force a quick Japanese surrender ... thought at the time. WW2: Countdown to Hiroshima: The ...
It was in response to these sanctions that Japan decided to attack America at Pearl Harbor, and so initiate World War II in the Far East. The second Sino-Japanese War made up more than 50 per cent of ...