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Friendly fire on a Japanese prison ship resulted in the loss of Red Lion soldier’s life
York Daily Record via Yahoo News· 1 month agoRed Lion’s Thomas Frutiger survived the incessant and deadly Japanese assault on the Philippines in...
Forensic Teams Work to Identify Remains of American POWs Killed in Tokyo Firebombing During World...
Military.com via Yahoo News· 1 month agoDozens of American military prisoners of war died in Tokyo amid the U.S. firebombing of Japan as...
Military was the destiny of Westminster's Douglas Hicks, who died in World War II
The Gardner News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWESTMINSTER — Serving in the military seemed to be the destiny for Douglas E. Hicks of Westminster,...
Horrific World War II bunker where Japanese scientists experimented on prisoners with biological...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPhoto taken on Aug. 13, 2022 shows a roll of a Japanese chemical warfare unit revealed by the...
This Rochester veteran was one of few Black soldiers to see combat in World War II.
Democrat and Chronicle via Yahoo News· 1 year agoLast November, just before his 99th birthday, Thomas J. Bostick boarded a plane for New Orleans. He...
Remains of World War II POW, Bataan Death March survivor identified
Army Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDefense Department researchers have identified the remains of a 28-year-old Army private who was...
A writer takes stock of his father-in-law's service in the Mighty Eighth during World War II
Gannett via AOL· 1 month agoGermany declared war on the United States a few days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec....
WWII ship that sank with 1,000 Allied POWs on board discovered in South China Sea
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe wreck of a Japanese transport ship that sank in 1942 with more than 1,000 Allied...
Letter reveals SLO County soldier’s World War II experiences. How did it end up in Japan?
San Luis Obispo Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA long-lost letter discovered by a Japanese historian in an old book sheds new light on the wartime...
Remembering World War II Heroes: Joseph Illiscavitch and Thomas Power of Barre Plains
The Gardner News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBARRE - On Easter morning of 1942, Mr. and Mrs. Willard D. Power of Barre Plains received a...