In the photo, Higashioka as a child stands next to his grandpa, U.S. Army World War II veteran G. Shigeru Higashioka, on a sunny day in Southern California. The Army veteran died Sept. 27 ...
It wasn't until the early 1990s that the Army commissioned a study to analyze whether Black troops had been unjustly overlooked. Ultimately, seven Black World War II troops were awarded the Medal ...
CHICAGO - Illinois Army National Guard Pfc ... when he is reunited with his family is incredible.“ Jerele was a World War II prisoner of war who died in captivity in 1943 at the age of 26.
But when the fighting was done, American fighting men certainly had a great enthusiasm for war trophies. After all, to the victor go the spoils. During World War II, there was an unprecedented ...
What characteristics define the best World War II movies ... ("Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan"), Van Johnson ("The Caine Mutiny"), George Murphy ("This Is the Army") and John Hodiak ("Lifeboat ...
The American 5th Army had invaded months earlier ... the infantry could follow in their sleds,” one World War II-era newsreel said at time, calling the concept the “modern equivalent of ...
Most dates back to the world wars but shells are still found from the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, noted Charlotte Nihart of Robin des Bois (Robin Hood), an association that has charted unexploded ...
An overgrown airfield on a small island in the Pacific, once instrumental in America's role in ending World War II, is being reclaimed ... on the horizon: the Army's Multi-Domain Operations ...
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Waverly Woodson Jr., a medic who was part of the only Black combat unit to take part in the D-Day invasion of France during World War II, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Tuesday, ...
As modern threats evolve, armoured fighting vehicles face a new era of challenges, from loitering munitions to kinetic energy projectiles. Advances in active, passive, and reactive protection systems ...
With the start of the second World War and a ... The German Army, military, SS, and German police units took an active part in authorized mass murders of Jews in the Soviet Union. The Germans and ...