After U.S. soldiers broke down the door of his Tokyo residence on the afternoon of Sept. 11, 1945, they found Hideki Tojo struggling to stand despite a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Tojo, who was ...

E.J. “Jack” Mallory, a local doctor of dentistry who practiced in Paradise and Chico from 1948 until the mid-1980s, was just a squared-away, 22-year-old Navy dentist in 1946 when he received the ...

The World War II era is fast fading from living memory. The few remaining men and women who were serving their country either in the military or as defense workers defeating fascism and Japanese ...

Hideki Tojo, Japanese prime minister at the time of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, is seen in the Dec. 1947, photo. AP TOKYO — Until recently, the location of executed wartime Japanese Prime Minister ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — John J. Wilpers Jr. went decades without publicly revealing details about his international headline-making exploits at the end of World War II, a string of silence befitting ...

Wilpers, shown with his daughter, retired from the US Army reserve in 1979 as a colonel The US soldier who arrested Japanese Prime Minister Gen Hideki Tojo to face trial for war crimes at the end of ...

In the Tokyo suburb of Tamagawa, the afternoon of Sept.11, 1945 was sultry. A sweating pack of Allied war correspondents waited restlessly outside the neat little house of General Hideki (“The Razor”) ...