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 ...
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How Comic Legend Mel Brooks Defused Land Mines During World War II
Germany's final major offensive on the Western Front -- but to his everlasting good fortune, he was not involved in the most ...
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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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 ...
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen honors two sisters for their work during World War II
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen honored two sisters for their efforts during World War II. Pillen recognized Margy Dietz and Marcy ...
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen honors sisters, ages 101 and 103, for work at WWII bomber plant
Two sisters, who are 101 and 103 years old, were honored by Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen on Monday for their work at the World War II bomber plant where the ...
Opinion: Helping CT students understand WW II and the usable past
I stood in my Connecticutco classroom deciding how to respond to my students’ “lessons from WW2.”  After a long silence, I ...
Joe Harris, believed to be the oldest surviving WWII paratrooper, has died
Sgt. Joe Harris, believed to be the oldest surviving World War II paratrooper and a member of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black ...
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The Battle of Luzon: Demonstrating U.S. Army Landpower in the Indo-Pacific
The Battle of Luzon remains a powerful example of how U.S. Army landpower serves as a decisive force in the Indo-Pacific.
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The world’s youngest country fought for decades to govern itself. Now it’s on the cusp of another civil war
raising fears that the world’s youngest nation — and one of its poorest — could swiftly lapse back into war. South Sudan split from the rest of Sudan in 2011 after decades of pro ...
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen honors sisters for their work during World War II
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen honored two sisters for their efforts during World War II.Sign up for our NewslettersPillen recognized Margy Dietz and Marcy Lackovic as hometown heroes during a ceremony ...