General Masaharu Homma was the commander in charge of the Japanese Imperial forces during the ... A few of the Americans, a very few, survived. Army PFC Eugene Nielson was one of the survivors.

Douglas MacArthur's U.S. Army Forces in the Far East, or USAFFE, had held out for four months against the Imperial Japanese Army, while every other island and nation in the Pacific and Southeast ...

On December 22, 1941, the 14 th Japanese Imperial Army, under the command of Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma, landed at Lingayen Gulf in Northern Luzon. The 14 th Army, with approximately 43,000 ...

Chiran, now part of this city, hosted an Imperial Japanese Army base that pilots used ... to continue the war among the military and the general public” as Japan’s prospects looked ...

The Ki-27 was a single-seater, highly maneuverable, fixed-gear airplane, but it was no match for the Flying Tigers. When one ...