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New book reveals untold story of Gen. Wainwright, highest-ranking American POW of World War II
Learn the story of Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, who became the highest-ranking American POW during WWII, in Jonathan Horn's ...
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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Japan emperor visits World War II battleground Iwo Jima
Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Monday made a rare visit to the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima to mark the ...
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The Moving Story of Bringing Baseball Back to Manzanar, Where Thousands of Japanese Americans Were Incarcerated During World War II
In honor of his mother and others imprisoned at the internment camp, baseball player Dan Kwong has restored a diamond in the ...
Rare World War II-era tank makes return to Japan after decades in Texas
In a significant act of historical restitution, a rare World War II-era tank has been returned from Texas to Japan, bridging decades of wartime history. The National Museum of the Pacific War in ...
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80 years after World War II, Okinawa’s battle sites are still giving up bones and bombs
But his real change of heart over history happened during a visit to Osaka 19 years before that. “I hated the Japanese intensely ... those who fought World War II, and the legacy of what the ...
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Japan emperor visits World War II battleground Iwo Jima
Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Monday made a rare visit to the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. The Japanese island ...