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Texas/Wyoming-based Magpul tapped into a long-forgotten yet golden vein of gun culture this week in a short, but captivating video on an obscure machine gun.

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The 93-year-old veteran took the flag from the deceased Japanese soldier in 1944 on the island of Saipan and returned it to the family last week.

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The U.S. Navy held a ceremony Wednesday that began at 7:55 a.m., marking the moment 75 years ago that Japanese planes descended on Pearl Harbor, launching an isolationist nation into war.

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Although authorities aren't quite sure how the grenade ended up at the Goodwill store, apparently that kind of thing isn't all that unusual in the military town.

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Japan recently returned a WWII-era T-6 Texan trainer to the Defense Logistics Agency, where it was demilitarized and torn apart.

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Google issued an official apology for posting a Google Doodle of a Japanese Go player on the 70th anniversary of D-Day. The posted Google Doodle was of Honinbo Shusaku, a professional player of the Chinese game Go. The image was uploaded in error, and once Google realized the mistake it was taken down and replaced […]

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“The Railway Man” follows Eric Lomax, an Allied prisoner of war during WWII that was brutally beaten and tortured, and who met his chief tormentor 50 years later. Lomax, played by Colin Firth, was captured by the Japanese in February 1942 and transported to Kanchanaburi, Thailand, where he was held at a prison camp and […]

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Japanese troops will land on Southern California beaches in the next two weeks for a military training exercise with U.S. troops. Scheduled to begin Tuesday, the unprecedented training led by U.S. Marines and sailors, aims to improve Japan’s Self-Defense Forces amphibious attack capabilities, as well as establish better coordination between its main ally — the U.S. But according […]

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