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NICHINAN, Miyazaki Prefecture—At the age of 99, Joseph Cursor, a former U.S. soldier who lives in Chicago, was running out of time to fulfill a long-held promise.
A U.S. Army colonel’s great-grandson returned a “good luck” flag Wednesday to the family of a Japanese soldier who carried it into battle during World War II.
WWII officially ended when Japan surrendered on September 2, 1945. But this didn't necessarily mean the end of the World War II for some men and women. Some dismissed the news of defeat as enemy ...
Onoda, like many Japanese soldiers, fully embraced the principles promoted by his country's military command. Losing was inconceivable, surrender was shameful, and suicide was unimaginable.
The mystery of the lost WWII-era Japanese military rifle Police, postal officials, nobody knows where the rifle is. Updated July 7, 2024 at 10:06 a.m. July 7, 2024.
A new project to memorialize the 125,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII will include soil from 75 former internment sites including one in Portland. Chisao Hata joined ...
Volunteer searching for WWII dead in Japanese caves unearths remains of hundreds of people. Updated on: March 6, 2025 / 7:15 AM EST / AP ... Military labs identify long-fallen soldiers 02:54.
Military scientists have identified the remains of an Illinois soldier who died during World War II at a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in the Philippines.
Navy pilot Arthur Hibray came back from World War II with a souvenir Japanese military rifle. But the weapon went missing shortly after his return from the war. Decades later, his son Blake Hibray ...
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