Born on the Fourth of July, Waynesboro Marine lost his life on Iwo Jima in World War II
Pfc. Frederick Rickard's death on Iwo Jima was the family's second tragedy in four months. His brother died in a Christmas ...
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Iwo Jima veteran recalls ‘terrible, terrible’ battle 80 years after WWII
Marine amphibious tractors burn after being hit by Japanese mortar shells during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. (U.S. Marine ...
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Army removes, reposts website documenting Japanese-American WWII soldiers
A revision of history or a reconfiguration to align with current policies? That is the question for the Army after the ...
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Marines, Japanese forces prepare for amphibious warfare on Okinawa
Trevor Hall, commander of the 3rd Marine Expeditionary ... it has seen since the end of World War II,” Maj. Gen. Hajime Kitajima, commander of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force’s Amphibious ...
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America’s Vought F4U Corsair Terrified the Japanese Military in WWII
The Corsair performed well during World War II, claiming 2,140 air combat victories against 189 losses—an overall kill ratio ...
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Okinawan bone digger searches for remains from WWII battle
As a volunteer cave digger, Takamatsu Gushiken has unearthed the remains of several hundred people killed in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II.
USAF restores WWII airbase that launched nuclear bombs on Japan to counter China
The US Air Force restores North Field Airbase, the WWII launch site for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings, to counter China.
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An Okinawan bone digger searches for remains from one of the fiercest battles of World War II
Eighty years on from the Battle of Okinawa during World War II, the remains of some ... are parked at the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, on the main island of the Okinawa ...
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Volunteer searching for WWII dead in Japanese caves unearths remains of hundreds of people
Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II, 1.2 million Japanese war dead are still unaccounted ... Tokyo has promised to relocate a U.S. Marine Corps air station that sits in a crowded town ...
Pentagon Flags WWII Plane That Nuked Japan as Woke
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber “Enola Gay,” which dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, was not, in fact, gay ...
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Hegseth’s ‘DEI is dead’ purge targets images of Tuskegee Airmen, war heroes — and WWII B-29 Enola Gay
A review of the database of images the Pentagon is targeting for removal underscores the confusion about what to remove. Some photos seemed to be flagged simply because their file included the word ...