US’ ‘unknown’ POWs were buried in a Japan mass grave 80 years ago. Can an American forensics team finally identify them?
Tokyo Prison Fire Project – have made ‘significant progress’ with the remains that were co-mingled and degraded by fire.
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The Public Finally Has Access to an Accurate List of Japanese Americans Detained During World War II
Researchers who spent years fixing errors in shoddy government records have partnered with Ancestry to make a wide selection ...
Japanese American soldiers in World War II fought the Axis abroad and racial prejudice at home
Imagine being forced from your home by the government, being imprisoned in a detention camp under armed guards and behind ...
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‘A Continuum of Love’: Telling the Story of WWII Japanese-American Internment Camps
“ Snapshots of Confinement ,” produced by anthropology professor Esteban Gomez and DU graduate Whitney Peterson (MA ’18), ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN3d
This Filipina Spy Used Her Leprosy as a Cover to Thwart the Japanese During World War II
Enemy soldiers overlooked Josefina "Joey" Guerrero due to her condition. Later, her heroic actions on behalf of the Allies ...
Contra Tucker Carlson, the US was justified in saving lives by bombing Japan
Tucker Carlson, who claims patriots must prioritize saving our own soldiers' lives, ought to consider the atomic bombing of ...
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Help Wanted: Japan’s Struggle to Remilitarize
Japan plans to increase its defense budget to 2% of GDP by April 2027, making it the third-largest military spender globally.
Ancestry website cataloguing names of Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II
The names and stories of thousands of Japanese Americans forced into incarceration camps during World War II have been ...
The Guardian1mon
How hidden WW2 bombs across the Pacific are found and destroyed, decades after war
Eight decades after the guns fell silent, munitions left by the US and Japan still litter beaches, jungles, and lagoons and continue to pose a hidden but lethal threat. Now millions is being spent ...
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Japan's Mitsubishi A6M Zero: The Best Fighter Plane of World War II
The Japanese ... America such a dominant player in the Second World War. So, the Americans are poised to suffer through a strategic surprise as they did from the Japanese in World War II.
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Plastics and American Culture After World War II
McCoy, a DuPont vice president, addressed a manufacturers' workshop on converting factories from military to consumer production after the war ... Satisfying American consumers' desires for ...
US ‘unknown’ POWs were buried in a Japan mass grave 80 years ago. Can dedicated US forensics team finally identify them?
That complicated and time-consuming task falls to the historians, forensic anthropologists, archivists and recovery teams of ...