80 years after World War II, Okinawa’s battle sites are still giving up bones and bombs
An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...
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Remains of American Soldier Captured by the Japanese During World War II Identified Nearly 80 Years Later
After his plane was shot down, Glenn H. Hodak was sent to a military prison in Tokyo, where he was killed by U.S. firebombing ...
Secret documents on Nazis who fled to Argentina after WWII being declassified
Argentina will soon declassify all government-held files relating to Nazi fugitives who fled and settled in Argentina after ...
‘A miracle of Western tenacity’: how 10 million refugees found homes after World War II
In her latest book, historian Sheila Fitzpatrick tells the story of millions of displaced people and international efforts to ...
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As he turns 100, Manitowoc WWII vet Cliff Beaupre says secret is to ‘live life to the fullest’
Cliff Beaupre served in the US Coast Guard during World War II, traveling all over the world transporting soldiers.
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The Last WWII Veteran on Active Duty Served for Nearly 55 Years After the War
Fox spent most of his life in and around the military ... He joined the Navy during World War II, stayed in the Naval Reserve after the war and then joined the Coast Guard at 55 years old.
John Wayne persuaded World War 2 veterans to reenact their real-life duty in classic movie
Just a couple of years after the Second World War, John Wayne starred in Sands of Iwo Jima, a movie reenacting it. At 42, the ...