SASEBO NAVAL BASE, Japan — On Oct. 7, 1943, following two days of blistering attacks from fighters off the USS Yorktown, the Imperial Japanese marched 97 American civilian contractors to the ...

When Japanese troops occupied Wake Island they executed 98 US civilian POWs in a bloody massacre. One of the men managed to chisel the words “98 US PW 5-10-43” into a coral rock before he was ...