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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 ...
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 scars remain, allowing visitors to get up close and touch history.
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Divers’ discovery of World War II plane crash leads to ID of US soldier, officials say
An American soldier who vanished during a World War II plane crash has been accounted for, military officials said. Photo by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency A 22-year-old soldier was one of ...
Joe Harris, 108, Dies; Thought to Be the Oldest World War II Paratrooper
He was a member of a segregated unit in the Pacific Northwest that fought forest fires set off by Japanese balloon bombs.
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World War II soldier missing for decades laid to rest in emotional South Carolina ceremony
They were exhumed in 2022 and identified as Crossland’s using science that didn’t exist in World War II. Crossland is buried at Fort Jackson National Cemetery near his brother, who also served ...
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Remains of World War II soldier from Roseville have been identified
WASHINGTON — The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has finally accounted for a Roseville soldier killed during World War II. According to an announcement, U.S. Army Pvt. James G. Loterbaugh ...
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Volunteer discovers over a thousand World War II casualties’ remains which await identification
Takamatsu Gushiken has spent years voluntarily locating bodies, and fragments of bodies, of World War II victims in Japan ... "The best way to honor the war dead is never to allow another ...
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How a World War II Tail Gunner Survived a Midair Collision Without a Parachute
Sgt. James Raley's account came almost three months to the day after he improbably survived that fall from the skies over ...
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An Okinawan bone digger searches for remains from one of the fiercest battles of World War II
Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II, 1.2 million Japanese war dead are still unaccounted for. That’s about half of the 2.4 million Japanese, mostly soldiers, who died during Japan’s early ...
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Soldiers sail across the Rhine to mark 80th anniversary of the invasion of Germany
While an Army band played on Saturday, soldiers in vintage World War II uniforms boarded an amphibious boat from the 1940s named “Tugboat Annie” and sailed down the Rhine, in honor of the ...