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Remains of American Soldier Captured by the Japanese During World War II Identified Nearly 80 Years Later
An American soldier who was killed during World War II has been accounted for nearly 80 years after his death. Last week, the ...
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Volunteer discovers over a thousand World War II casualties’ remains which await identification
and fragments of bodies, of World War II victims in Japan’s Okinawa's jungle. Over 80 years since a major battle, Gushiken shared with CBS News how he had uncovered the remains of 1,400 people.
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'Eerie' sky, charred bodies: 80 years since Tokyo WWII firestorm
In fact, the USAAF dropped the leaflets throughout Japan during the war. No other country did. The Japanese police punished anyone caught reading the warnings. "By burning them down, you would kill ...
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'Charred Bodies, Eerie Sky': Japanese Survivors Recall Deadly WWII Air Raid
Five months before the United States dropped atomic weapons on Japan's Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the nighttime raid on March 9-10, 1945 was World War II's deadliest using conventional bombs.
Japanese WWII survivor recounts the fire and fury as her city burned.
ON her sixth birthday 80 years ago, Shizuko Nishio clung to her mother as US B-29 bombers started a firestorm that turned ...
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In Japan, last survivors of WWII firebombing by US make final push for justice
More than 100,000 people were killed in a single night 80 years ago on Monday in the US firebombing of the Japanese capital ... streets with heaps of charred bodies. The damage was comparable ...