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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The Moving Story of Bringing Baseball Back to Manzanar, Where Thousands of Japanese Americans Were Incarcerated During World War II
In honor of his mother and others imprisoned at the internment camp, baseball player Dan Kwong has restored a diamond in the ...
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Susquehanna Valley 'Rosie the Riveter' highlights vital role women played in World War II
It's Women's History Month, and WGAL is highlighting Susquehanna Valley women who have made a lasting impact on our community ...
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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 ...
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Airman who was shot down, imprisoned in Japan during World War II accounted for
A World War II airman who was taken captive by Japanese forces and died in a prison fire after his plane was shot down has been accounted for, military officials said Wednesday. U.S. Army Air ...
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Carmen Vazquez Rivera of Tallahassee: War veteran, nurse, Latina pioneer
The life of Carmen Vazquez Rivera – a World War II and Korean War veteran who died recently at 103 – could be the makings of ...
Review: History Theatre’s ‘Secret Warriors’ a gripping take on a seldom-told story
Several key figures in World War II’s final battles were heroic young Japanese-American men who studied in Minnesota.
A Greenville WWII captain was shot down, taken prisoner by Nazis. A memorial is planned in Germany.
Greenville native Miles Richard "Dick" League, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, fought in World War II. He was a prisoner of ...
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I Left My Old Life Behind To Fight For Ukraine. Here’s What Trump Isn’t Telling You.
But since Donald Trump has come back into office, everything has changed. Watching his meeting with Ukrainian President ...
Savannah remembers Rev. Matthew Southall Brown with street naming
Family members and Savannah officials gathered on Hartridge St. to designate a portion of E. Broad St. as Rev. Matthew ...
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Missing WWII warfighters found, Families find closure after 80 years
Missing in Action. Just six weeks before World War II would end, the news came to four U.S. service member Families via telegram. Two ...