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Remains in Okinawa may be American, isotope analysis suggests
An analysis method has found that remains collected in Okinawa last year may be those of an American. The southern Japanese ...
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Japanese Last-Ditch Small Arms Of World War II
The crude assortment of fighting tools used by the Japanese during World War II give clues of an unprepared and unmatched ...
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Casablanca-Class: The U.S. Navy Built 50 ‘Baby Aircraft Carriers’ in Just a Year
The Casablanca-class escort carriers were America’s secret weapon in WWII, a fleet of 50 “jeep carriers” mass-produced with ...
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This Warship Explosion Was So Huge It Took Down Aircraft
By April 1945, with Japan’s empire collapsing and Okinawa under siege, the Imperial Navy prepared one last desperate strike ...
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Accidental blast at Okinawa base tied to rust removal on old anti-tank shell
An explosion last month at a munitions storage facility on Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, occurred when Japanese soldiers accidentally detonated a fuse on a World War II-era anti-tank shell, Japan’s ...
Cleveland WWII POW identified 80 years after death in Japanese prison camp
Lt. William Bucey, who survived the Bataan Death March but died of malaria in 1944, will finally receive a proper burial in ...