Japanese WWII survivor recounts the fire and fury as her city burned.
ON her sixth birthday 80 years ago, Shizuko Nishio clung to her mother as US B-29 bombers started a firestorm that turned ...
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Volunteer searching for WWII dead in Japanese caves unearths remains of hundreds of people
Island haunted by one of World War II's deadliest battles On April 1 ... Of the estimated 188,140 Japanese killed in the Battle of Okinawa, most of their remains had been collected and placed ...
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Okinawan bone digger searches for the remains of WWII dead and worries their lessons are unheard
Takamatsu Gushiken hunts caves in Okinawa's jungles for the bones of those who died in the WWII Battle of Okinawa, one of the ...
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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 ...
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’s Okinawa's jungle. Over 80 years since a major battle, Gushiken shared with ...
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WW2: Was it right to bomb Hiroshima?
Eighty thousand men, women and children were killed and tens of thousands wounded ... the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. WW2: How close did D-Day come to failure?
Emperor, Empress to visit WWII battle island Ioto
Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will visit the Japanese island of Ioto to remember those who died in World War ...
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Comsewogue students join effort to reunite Japanese families with World War II ‘Good Luck Flags’
Students at Comsewogue High School in the Comsewogue School District have joined a cross-cultural humanitarian effort to ...