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The USS Edsall, sunk by Japanese forces in World War II, has been found. November 13, 2024 5:00 AM ET. By . ... The ship was lost during World War II but was located by Australia's navy last year.
An unexploded bomb dropped during World War II and subsequently buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday morning. This damaged a runway and canceled more than 80 flights, but no one was ...
Officials inspect a crater caused by an explosion on a taxiway at Miyazaki Airport in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 2, 2024. The crater was caused by a U.S. bomb dropped in World War II.
An unexploded bomb dropped during World War II and subsequently buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday morning. This damaged a runway and canceled more than 80 flights, but no one was ...
An American soldier who was killed during World War II has been accounted for nearly 80 years after his death. Last week, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that it had identified the ...
During World War II America dropped hundreds of thousands of bombs across Japan and the rest of the South Pacific. Sometimes these bombs don’t explode and they sit, undetonated, in the ground.
During World War II, the airport was used by the Imperial Japanese Navy to launch kamikaze attacks against Allied forces. The kamikaze pilots would fly their planes into U.S. and partner nation ships.
Bernard Stein never talked about his combat experiences in Southeast Asia during World War II, but he’d brought the flag home as a war trophy after fighting with the U.S. Army’s 38th Infantry ...
A World War II airman who was taken captive by Japanese forces and died in a prison fire after his plane was shot down has been accounted for, military officials said Wednesday. U.S. Army Air ...
An unexploded U.S. bomb from World War II that had been buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday, causing a large crater in a taxiway and the cancellation of more than 80 flights but no ...
San Diego was home to a number of great Japanese American baseball players during the 1930s and ’40s. In 1936, Hideo Higashi won the Linn Platner Perpetual Baseball Trophy at San Diego State.
During World War II, Hodak was a gunner with the 93rd Bombardment Squadron’s 19th Bombardment Group. He was on a bombing mission to Tokyo when his B-29 Superfortress plane was shot down in March ...