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How significant were the Coastwatchers during WWII?
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 8 months agoCaptain Martin Clemens (rear centre), a coastwatcher on Guadalcanal, provided intelligence to Allied forces during the battle for the island (August 1942...
The site of the US's first major World War II offensive in the Pacific is the scene of new struggle...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 2 years agoUS Navy transport ship USS President Adams, its decks crowded with troops, before the invasion of...
Australia and Papua New Guinea leaders trek toward WWII South Pacific battleground
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 months agoAustralia and Papua New Guinea’s prime ministers on Tuesday began trekking into the South Pacific...
Search team finds plane once flown by a Wisconsin WWII hero, 'Ace of Aces' Richard Bong
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe jubilation the search team felt when it discovered "Ace of Aces" Richard Bong's downed P-38...
Why Life magazine's 1942 spread on Detroit made everyone mad
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 4 months agoIn August 1942, Edward Stankiewicz wrote a letter from boot camp to his mother at the family home on...
80 years ago, he survived sinking of USS Hornet. Fresno-area vet shares his WWII story
Fresno Bee McClatchy via AOL· 2 years agoEighty years ago, Bob Cole was a sailor on the aircraft carrier USS Hornet in the South Pacific. It...
US, Japan left behind thousands of bombs after WWII. They're still exploding and killing people in...
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCoconut crabs roast atop a sheet of roofing iron, heated by a fire below, as the Manele family prepares for a typical Monday night dinner in Guadalcanal, an island in the South Pacific Ocean ...
Eighty years ago, the world outlook was bleak. Enter America into WW II, and fortunes turned
Savannah Morning News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAs America marks Veterans Day, think back to 80 years ago. It is just after the devastating December...
'Missing' blob of water predicted to be in the Atlantic finally found
Live Science via Yahoo News· 7 months agoThe Atlantic Ocean during a storm. . Scientists have discovered a previously undetected water mass...
20 NHL stars who served during World War II
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 5 months ago20 NHL stars who served during World War II photo Established in 1917, the National Hockey League has had numerous star players who wore the military...
