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With most young men fighting overseas, Erie's women were called to duty. Most worked in Erie's factories while some worked clerical positions.
Victoria Kelly’s grandfather was an American atomic veteran who served in Nagasaki and died young, haunted by his experiences ...
The government will be conducting activities on the recording and preservation of oral history on the Malaya Lolas’ experiences during Second World War. In the Joint Memorandum Circular 2025-1 S. 2025 ...
It was everywhere in Europe.” On Tuesday, the U.S. Embassy in Japan denied that U.S forces operated a system of comfort women during or after that war.
Ms. Gil was one of about 240 so-called comfort women from South Korea who had publicly spoken out about their abuse at the hands of the Japanese military from the 1930s through World War II, and ...
Japanese War Brides, a traveling Smithsonian exhibition, explores the lives of the nearly 45,000 Japanese women who immigrated to America as wives of U.S. military servicemembers after World War II.
Japanese women were expected to be combatants in the Volunteer Fighting Corps. These ladies train with a Nambu Type 11 light machine gun (6.5x50 mm Arisaka). It is highly unlikely that even an old ...
A Japanese navy destroyer torpedoed during a crucial Second World War battle has finally been discovered on the Pacific Ocean floor 80 years after it sank. At such a critical moment in US history, we ...