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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As Russia’s war reaches milestone, Ukrainians count their personal losses
Then there were blackouts and shortages of food and incontinence pads for her mother, who was born during World War II – and died in June 2022 of natural causes. “Poor thing, she was born ...
Russian Armored Column With WW2 Victory Flags Blown Up on Ukraine Minefield
Several Russian tanks adorned with Soviet-era red victory flags were destroyed by Ukrainian drones in Kursk, adding to ...
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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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How Many People Have Died in the Russia-Ukraine War?
Quantifying injuries and casualties has been a difficult task ... making this one of the deadliest conflicts for Russia since World War II. The report indicates that Russian forces have relied ...
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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 ...