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 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 ...
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The Moving Story of Bringing Baseball Back to Manzanar, Where Thousands of Japanese Americans Were Incarcerated During World War IIIn 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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Remains Cambridge Springs World War II vet coming homeThe remains of a World War II veteran from Cambridge Springs have been accounted for and will soon be sent home to Pennsylvania. Corporal Glenn Hodak was an Air Force gunner shot down during a ...
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 a wasteland. Five months before the United ...
The Japanese folk song “Sakura” celebrates the transient beauty of the cherry blossom, popularly regarded as the country’s national flower. But to Filipinos like Fernando Vasquez-Prada ...
Regarded as one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century, Robert Capa’s impactful photographs capture the essence of humanity when it is the most unseen – amidst the sufferings of war.
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