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Remains of American Soldier Captured by the Japanese During World War II Identified Nearly 80 Years LaterAfter his plane was shot down, Glenn H. Hodak was sent to a military prison in Tokyo, where he was killed by U.S. firebombing ...
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 ...
Nicknamed the “Tokyo Express” by their opponents, the Japanese “tin cans” acquired the grudging respect of the Americans for ...
On her sixth birthday 80 years ago, Shizuko Nishio clung to her mother as U.S. B-29 bombers started a firestorm that turned humans to ash and Tokyo into ... was World War II's deadliest using ...
The names of around 4,200 victims of the indiscriminate air raids on Tokyo by U.S. bombers near the end of World War II will ...
During my childhood in Tokyo, I often heard stories from relatives and local adults about U.S. air raids on the Japanese capital during World War II. These horror tales, heard nearly half a ...
The victims she was referring to are the survivors of the Great Tokyo Air Raid that killed 100,000 people in the capital during World War II. And the investigation relates to the stalled Diet ...
Bereaved families and others held a memorial ceremony in Tokyo on Thursday to read out the names of victims of U.S. air raids ...
Taeko Shimura, who was a 22-year-old teacher at the time of the U.S. bombings of Tokyo near the end of World War II, is seen in the Tokyo suburb of Machida on Jan. 29, 2025. (Mainichi/Emi Naito) ...
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