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VJ Day will be honoured and remembered with special programming across TV, iPlayer, Radio, Sounds and the BBC Archive to mark ...
This operation was done by 4 Para (SF) officers. One officer and his buddy identified them, after which they were shot ...
Huitong Bridge became a legend during China's resistance against Japanese aggression. Yu Ge, author of Huitongqiao Zhizhan ...
As the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II approaches, only a few veterans of Japan’s brutal war remain. “Never die ...
A Kanawha County, West Virginia, World War II Army private killed in action in Burma in 1944 while serving with Merrill's ...
Rare earths are a group of 17 metals used to make magnets that turn power into motion. So-called heavy rare earths are used ...
World War II pilot Charles W. McCook died in action in 1943 but his remains were not identified for more than 80 years. He ...
The remains of Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Henry J. Carlin, who disappeared in a WWII crash over Burma in 1943, have been identified and will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
Naw Paw Pree, Indigenous Karen from the Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG), joined the International Festival for People’s Rights and Struggles (IFPRS) with IPMSDL as one of the co-organizers, and felt ...
The remains of a WWII airman from Philadelphia who was killed in action were identified nearly 80 years later.