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Hideki Tojo, prime minister during much of World War II, is a complicated figure, revered by some conservatives as a patriot but loathed by many in the West for prolonging the war, which ended ...
ALBANY, New York – John J. Wilpers Jr., the last surviving member of the U.S. Army intelligence unit that captured former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo after World War II, has died at 93.
ALBANY, N.Y. – John J. Wilpers Jr., the last surviving member of the U.S. Army intelligence unit that captured former Japanese prime minister Hideki Tojo after World War II, has died at 93. His ...
ALBANY — John J. Wilpers Jr., a Capital Region native and the last surviving member of the U.S. Army intelligence unit that captured former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo after World War II ...
TOKYO – Japanese World War II leader Hideki Tojo wanted to keep fighting even after U.S. atomic bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, accusing surrender proponents of being “frightened,” a newly ...
Japanese World War II leader Hideki Tojo wanted to keep fighting even after U.S. atomic bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, accusing surrender proponents of being "frightened," a newly ...
On August 15, 1945, World War II ended with the surrender of Japan. American troops were moved quickly to Japan to act as an army of occupation. ... Also in Tokyo was Hideki Tojo, ...
Hideki Tojo, prime minister during much of World War II, is a complicated figure, revered by some conservatives as a patriot but loathed by many in the West for prolonging the war, which ended ...
John J. Wilpers Jr., a key member of the Army intelligence unit that arrested Japanese wartime prime minister Hideki Tojo, died Feb. 28. Mr. Wilpers is shown here standing over Tojo in 1945.
Every morning for the last three months, Yuko Tojo has prayed at a war shrine for Japan’s fallen soldiers — including her grandfather, Gen. Hideki Tojo, the executed World War II premier who ...
Tojo, whose administrative skills and loyalty had won Hirohito's trust, was made prime minister just two months before the Pearl Harbor attack and served in the post for most of World War II ...
John J. Wilpers Jr., the last surviving member of the U.S. Army intelligence unit that captured former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo after World War II, has died at 93.