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In 1945, eighty years ago, no one knew how World War II would end
Eighty years ago, during World War II, the United States operated full-scale military operations worldwide while planning how ...
Enola Gay pilot's granddaughter decries 'shameful' Trump Defense Department DEI word purge
The granddaughter of Paul W. Tibbets Jr. — the pilot who flew the bomber Enola Gay that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II — called the Trump administration flagging photos of the ...
Air Force Times on MSN4d
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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN13d
The Secret World War II History of Koh Samui, the New Setting for ‘The White Lotus’
Behind the dreamy scenery of the HBO show’s latest location lurks an explosive story of Thailand’s involvement in the ...
Kansas City Star on MSN6d
Divers’ discovery of World War II plane crash leads to ID of US soldier, officials say
A 2019 discovery by Danish divers found the wreck in the depth of the Baltic Sea, leading excavators to later pull evidence ...
The Columbian4d
Japanese digger searches for WWII remains: ‘Best way to honor war dead is never to allow another war’
Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headtorch and enters a cave buried in Okinawa’s jungle. He gently runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge. These are from the ...
The Aviationist10d
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 ...
‘Never forget’: Philippine documentary rekindles memories of terror during World War II
Survivors of the 1945 Battle of Manila recount in 'Children of the War' how they escaped 'mass executions' during the ...
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 ...
WWII bomb disposal operation in Paris causes hours of travel chaos and Eurostar line closure
Paris police say travel chaos from the overnight unearthing of an unexploded WWII bomb has spread to the French capital Paris ...