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 ...
Volunteer discovers over a thousand World War II casualties’ remains which await identification
Takamatsu Gushiken has spent years voluntarily locating bodies, and fragments of bodies, of World War II victims in Japan’s ...
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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 ...
Russia Is Losing the War of Attrition
Ukraine is not on the verge of collapse. That makes the Trump administration’s decisions particularly shortsighted and tragic ...
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How a ‘Dauntless’ dive bomber became a WWII ace at Coral Sea
Navy pilot John Leppla was credited with shooting down five Japanese aircraft in aerial combat before he was shot down and ...
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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 ...
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A befuddling bugle: How a WWII Axis instrument may have found itself in Allied hands
A state-by-state review of U.S. World War II casualties found no one with initials or ranks matching those last names. The National Archives maintains those records online. Burke's rank as a ...
Trump's move to restore old Army base names highlights Nebraska man's heroics at 18 in World War I
For more than a century, Fort Benning's name honored a Confederate general who supported slavery. The military changed the ...
Russia uses gas pipeline to strike at Ukrainian troops from rear in Kursk
Russian special forces infiltrate gas pipeline to strike Ukrainian units in Kursk, Ukraine, as Moscow seeks to recapture ...
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U.S. tariffs, retaliation will raise prices, economists say
Mexico and Canada could see job losses as well. The estimate for Canada ... that pushed for the United States to stay out of World War II. He and his fellow isolationists were opponents of ...