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Remains of American Soldier Captured by the Japanese During World War II Identified Nearly 80 Years Later
Hodak, a 23-year-old corporal in the United States Army Air Forces from Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania. Hodak was accounted for on September 25, 2024. During World War II, Hodak was a gunner ...
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Boonville World War II POW remains identified 80 years later
Harland Hennessey fought in the battle for the Bataan Peninsula against Japanese forces in 1942 and was captured.
Airman who was shot down, imprisoned in Japan during World War II accounted for
A World War II airman who was taken captive by Japanese forces and died in a prison fire after his plane was shot down has been accounted for, military officials said Wednesday.
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Hamilton City honors fallen WWII hero's return home 81 years after death
On Tuesday, the remains of U.S. Army Private James Stanley Mitchell were transported from the Sacramento International Airport to Hamilton City, where the procession passed members of the community an ...
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Why a U.S. Navy captain ordered a military funeral for a kamikaze pilot during WWII's Battle of Okinawa
A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the ...
World’s oldest Pearl Harbor survivor dies at 106: ‘Lived with integrity every single day’
A veteran believed to be the world’s oldest Pearl Harbor survivor has died at 106 years old. Vaughn P. Drake Jr. from ...