An Okinawan bone digger searches for remains from one of the fiercest battles of World War II
As a volunteer cave digger, Takamatsu Gushiken has unearthed the remains of several hundred people. Excavation is not his ...
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Remains of Bomber Pilot Identified 80 Years After His Plane Went Down During World War II
Herbert G. Tennyson was a U.S. Army pilot on a B-24 nicknamed "Heaven Can Wait," which crashed into the ocean in early 1944 ...
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The Secret World War II History of Koh Samui, the New Setting for 'The White Lotus'
As tourists explore the Thai island of Koh Samui, the key setting for the latest season of HBO’s “The White Lotus,” they may ...
Critically acclaimed documentary highlights "Rosie the Riveters" and the Black women who helped win World War II
Rosie the Riveters is a term to describe women who took on industrial and government jobs during WWII. Millions of women ...
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P-38 Lightning: The Backbone of America’s World War II Air Force
In the Pacific Theater, P-38s downed over 1,800 Japanese aircraft, and more than 100 P-38 pilots became “aces.” ...
‘A miracle of Western tenacity’: how 10 million refugees found homes after World War II
In her latest book, historian Sheila Fitzpatrick tells the story of millions of displaced people and international efforts to ...
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Women of World War II: The Untold Stories
Meet the American women who built the planes and flew them, fought on the warfront and the home front, cracked codes and ...
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The Initial Aerial Victories of the Axis and Allies in World War II
In the opening hours of World War II, in the early morning skies over Poland, both the Axis and the Allied side had aerial ...
Heroism and collaboration — two novels set in the dying days of the second world war
The moral anchor to the story — and a fledgling detective — is Ruth Novak, a Red Cross officer from London who sets up a refugee camp in the factory. Ruth is Jewish, from a family of Polish émigrés, ...
Post-World War II era set the stage for the development of the Florida we all know today
The Sunshine State of today — the one that spans the era the vast majority of the state's residents live in now has been ...