Military Times on MSN4d
The P-51 Mustang and the man who won the World War II air war with it
It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe ...
102-year-old World War II veteran removed from voter rolls, mistaken for dead
A Stockton man recently found out he could no longer vote after an error in San Joaquin County marked him as being dead. The 102-year-old Army veteran said the only elections he's missed was when he ...
The Associated Press on MSN12d
Hegseth’s ‘DEI is dead’ purge targets images of Tuskegee Airmen, war heroes — and WWII B-29 Enola Gay
A review of the database of images the Pentagon is targeting for removal underscores the confusion about what to remove. Some photos seemed to be flagged simply because their file included the word ...
Air Force Times on MSN6d
Okinawan bone digger searches for remains from one of the fiercest battles of World War II
Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headtorch and enters a cave buried in Okinawa's jungle. He gently runs his fingers through the ...
Okinawan bone digger searches for the remains of WWII dead and worries their lessons are unheard
Takamatsu Gushiken hunts caves in Okinawa’s jungles for the bones of those who died in the WWII Battle of Okinawa, one of the ...
CBS News15d
Volunteer searching for WWII dead in Japanese caves unearths remains of hundreds of people
Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II, 1.2 million Japanese war dead are still unaccounted for. That's about half of the 2.4 million Japanese, mostly soldiers, who died during Japan's ...
Dead Men Do Tell (Funny) Tales: Operation Mincemeat
At MI5, several intelligence officers—chiefly Ewan Montagu and Charles Cholmondeley (that’s pronounced “Chumly,” fellow Yanks ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs14d
Volunteer discovers over a thousand World War II casualties’ remains which await identification
Takamatsu Gushiken has spent years voluntarily locating bodies, and fragments of bodies, of World War II victims in Japan ... "The best way to honor the war dead is never to allow another ...
"2 million dead by the end of the year": Ex-USAID chief says aid cuts will kill starving children
In the wake of USAID’s shuttering by billionaire Elon Musk and President Donald Trump, those familiar with USAID’s work have ...
The Columbian13d
Japanese digger searches for WWII remains: ‘Best way to honor war dead is never to allow another war’
Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headtorch and enters a cave buried in Okinawa’s jungle. He gently runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge. These are from the ...