Akron sailor, 17, steered Gen. Douglas MacArthur to Philippine island during World War II. His VFW post came up with a ...
The Japanese began to bomb American bases in the Philippines hours after the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor that launched the United States into World War II. By the spring of 1942, Japanese ...
WWII Veteran Don Graves shares his profound and somber memoir of the Battle of Iwo Jima. He recounts the brutal reality of the fighting, where only eight men from his 300-man company survived.
Army Brig. Gen. Guy Fort, 1st Sgt. John Chandler, Capt. Albert Price, and Lt. Col. Robert Vesey (left to right) were POWs executed by the Japanese in the Philippines ...
As Japanese guns on Peleliu blazed, 19-year-old Matt Gutman steered his boatload of Marines toward the beach and hoped he wouldn’t get hit. It was the first time he landed troops on an enemy-held ...
The idea for the trip to New Orleans all started when a friend of his son, Paul, who works for the museum, reached out and explained that they are always looking for WWII veterans to talk to, as there ...
ONTARIO, Calif. (AP) — The long-unidentified remains of a World War II service member who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in the Philippines in 1942 were returned home to California on Tuesday ...
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