80 years after World War II, Okinawa’s battle sites are still giving up bones and bombs
An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...
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The Moving Story of Bringing Baseball Back to Manzanar, Where Thousands of Japanese Americans Were Incarcerated During World War II
In honor of his mother and others imprisoned at the internment camp, baseball player Dan Kwong has restored a diamond in the ...
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This World War II Battleship Fights Its Greatest Enemy Yet
The USS Iowa has served the U.S. in its darkest hours. Now, she faces a new set of challenges: combatting the brutal passage ...
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50 Years Ago, Marvel Debuted Its World War II Superhero Team, the Invaders
A look back to March 1975 for the debut of Marvel's World War II superhero team, the Invaders, starring Captain America, ...
Carmen Vazquez Rivera of Tallahassee: War veteran, nurse, Latina pioneer
The life of Carmen Vazquez Rivera – a World War II and Korean War veteran who died recently at 103 – could be the makings of ...
A Greenville WWII captain was shot down, taken prisoner by Nazis. A memorial is planned in Germany.
Greenville native Miles Richard "Dick" League, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, fought in World War II. He was a prisoner of ...
Opinion: Helping CT students understand WW II and the usable past
I stood in my Connecticutco classroom deciding how to respond to my students’ “lessons from WW2.”  After a long silence, I ...
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The world’s youngest country fought for decades to govern itself. Now it’s on the cusp of another civil war
A peace deal ending a conflict that killed tens of thousands in South Sudan is in danger of collapsing, raising fears that the world’s ... into a civil war in 2013 and then again three years ...
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Australia’s Confidence Problem
The biggest current question facing Australia may not be whether it can trust the U.S., but whether it can have the ...
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Gaza war’s first major anti-Hamas protests may not oust it, but are weakening its hold
“If I see someone speak out and then get ... the whole world is watching these protests now. It aims to dismantle the protests by framing them as demonstrations against the war rather than ...