WW2 fighters cleared to fly after pilot death
World War Two fighter aircraft grounded after a fatal crash are to fly again, the RAF has said. The Battle of Britain ...
Okinawan bone digger searches for remains from WWII battle
As a volunteer cave digger, Takamatsu Gushiken has unearthed the remains of several hundred people killed in one of the ...
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The Battle of Itter Castle: WWII’s Strangest Battle
In one of the most bizarre battles of World War II, U.S. soldiers, Wehrmacht troops, and an unlikely group of French VIP prisoners found themselves fighting side by side against the Waffen SS in the ...
Born on the Fourth of July, Waynesboro Marine lost his life on Iwo Jima in World War II
Pfc. Frederick Rickard's death on Iwo Jima was the family's second tragedy in four months. His brother died in a Christmas ...
Okinawan bone digger searches for the remains of WWII dead and worries their lessons are unheard
Takamatsu Gushiken hunts caves in Okinawa’s jungles for the bones of those who died in the WWII Battle of Okinawa, one of the ...
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Iwo Jima veteran recalls ‘terrible, terrible’ battle 80 years after WWII
His 10 days at Iwo Jima were a “terrible, terrible experience with dead people everywhere,” he told Stars and Stripes in a ...
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Medals of World War 2 hero who was prisoner of war to fetch thousands at auction
A collection of rare medals belonging to a Battle of France war hero who survived being captured by the Germans is set to ...
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The heroic legacy of Father Lawrence Lynch, the ‘Holy Hurricane’ of WWII: Our Neighborhood, The Way It Was
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa, where Father Lawrence Lynch, a brave Irish-American priest is ...
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An Okinawan Bone Digger Searches for Remains from One of the Fiercest Battles of World War II
He carefully places them in a ceramic rice bowl and takes a moment to imagine people dying 80 years ago as they hid in this cave during one of the fiercest battles of World War II. His hope is ...
Okinawan bone digger searches caves for the remains of WWII dead
Eighty years on from the Battle of Okinawa during World War II, the remains of some of those killed are still being ...
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An Okinawan Bone Digger Searches for Remains From One of the Fiercest Battles of World War II
An Okinawan Bone Digger Searches for Remains From One of the Fiercest Battles of World War II ITOMAN, Japan (AP) — Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headtorch and enters a cave buried in Okinawa's ...