Airman who was shot down, imprisoned during World War II accounted for
A World War II airman who was taken captive by Japanese forces and died in a prison fire after his plane was shot down has ...
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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 ...
Enola Gay Aircraft—And Other Historic Items—Inaccurately Targeted Under Pentagon’s Anti-DEI Purge
References to the aircraft—which dropped the first war-time atomic bomb—were flagged for removal from Pentagon photos and online posts as part of a DEI purge, presumably because of the word “gay.” ...
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Meet “Doc,” One of Only Two Flying B-29s in the World
The idea of a second, Ohio-based Superfortress to galvanize crowds hounded Mazzolini. “I have a love affair with this particular airplane,” he says. In the 1950s, Mazzolini had been a U.S. Air ...
Human remains, boot & parachute fragments: How Gujarat varsity helped US identify 3 missing WWII airmen
In a joint effort by National Forensic Sciences University and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the identification of ...