A Wisconsin museum is partnering with a historical preservation group in a search for the wreckage of World War II ace Richard Bong’s plane in the South Pacific. The Richard …
Imagine being 106 years old, still physically and mentally active, and doing what you love. Los Angeles resident Risa “Amazing” Igelfeld does just that, speaking to groups about how she …
But its focus will be the 2,300 or so who were secretly kicked out of Britain, from late 1945, after they had done dangerous duty with the merchant navy. Rosa …
Eight decades after 10th Mountain Division soldiers trained at Colorado’s historic Camp Hale for combat in World War II, Army Staff Sgt. Cam Daniels stood on a snow-covered mountainside west …
Years passed, and eventually two enjoyable days were spent together in Switzerland, in 2002, with her younger son, Ian, then writing a memoir of his mother, recently published as Searching …
These foreign-manned fighters flew across western China to Thailand, Rangoon and deep into French Indochina in pursuit of Nakajimas and Kawasakis. A bomber takes off for Japan above rows of …
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Meilan Solly Associate Editor, History When a powerful Japanese feudal lord with aspirations of seizing control of the warring nation learned that a ragged group of European sailors had landed …
“There are many questions that have not been answered. Or even acknowledged,” she said. Yet, the facts of the Suez Maru sinking are today not in doubt. Launched in 1919, …
On Feb. 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which resulted in the mass incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans to “relocation centers” during World War II, after the …
With the Japanese still around, George Giffen and Henry “Harry” Ching camped in the office, with George regretting he had not brought his bedding from Stanley (internment camp). They were …