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The remains of two U.S. Army Air Forces soldiers killed during World War II, Sgt. R. L. Tyler and Staff Sgt. Hubert Yeary, ...
Then 21-year-old US Army Private Willard Merrill was captured by Japanese forces in 1942 while fighting in the Philippines ...
A landscaper working on a historical film about the Battle of Okinawa uncovered human remains last summer on Ie Shima, ...
The remains of a soldier from Maine who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II have finally been ...
Pvt. Willard D. Merrill died as a prisoner of war after he was among those captured when U.S. forces in Bataan, Philippines, surrendered to the Japanese.
Protesters marched in Tokyo's upscale Ginza district Saturday, demanding a legislative measure to provide relief for those who suffered during World War II, including civilians killed in air raids.
Gen. George Patton gave the Thunderbirds high praise, saying "the 45th Infantry Division is one of the best, if not the best..." ...
By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff A Dover-Foxcroft soldier who died during World War II after the Imperial ...
There aren’t that many Nisei veterans that are out in the community that are still active. So for the three of them to really bond in recent times and recent years, it’s very ...
In one sense, a story in High Country News by Kori Suzuki is about the memory of James Wakasa, a Japanese immigrant who was ...
World War II veterans ... to the Japanese.” At the ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima on March 29, Cram presented the flag to the grandson of that soldier.
Anzac Day unites us as a nation – but it does so for uniquely personal reasons. Every single one of us will observe the ...