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At Long Last, Old Photo Helps ID Korean War Soldier
21+ hour, 7+ min ago (190+ words) An old photo and a once-sidelined forensic technique have finally put a name to Korean War remains that had confounded modern science. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency says... Investigators then turned to a process known as craniofacial superimposition, overlaying…...
How the Nazis Came to Rely on Bookbinders
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (336+ words) How the Nazis Came to Rely on Bookbinders'Newser How the Nazis Came to Rely on Bookbinders It's long been known that Nazis used church, synagogue, and civil records to identify Jewish people. What has been far less known is bookbinders…...
82 Years After Mass Execution, Photos Appear on eBay
1+ week, 3+ day ago (139+ words) Two red roses are placed on the execution wall at the Kaisariani Shooting Range in the Kaisariani suburb of Athens, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026, where 200 Greek communist political prisoners were executed by Nazi forces on May 1, 1944. - The Kaisariani executions of 200 communist political…...
'You Can't Help but Smile' at These WWII Love Letters
1+ week, 6+ day ago (428+ words) WWII Love Letters Detail a Pair's Courtship, Then Marriage'Newser 'You Can't Help but Smile' at These WWII Love Letters Highlights from a trove of more than 200 love letters that tell the story of a couple's courtship and marriage during World…...
Japanese American Soldiers to Get Posthumous Promotions
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (648+ words) Seven Japanese American soldiers are being promoted to officer ranks in a solemn ceremony Monday, eight decades after they died fighting for the US during World War II despite... Japanese American Soldiers to Get Posthumous Promotions Seven Japanese American soldiers…...
Japanese American soldiers once branded 'enemy aliens' to be promoted posthumously
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (643+ words) The seven were students at the University of Hawaii and cadets in the Reserve Officer Training Corps, on track to become Army officers, when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. They initially served in the Hawaii Territorial Guard, but soon…...
Wonderful Life Edit Has Prime Viewers Perplexed
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (404+ words) Holiday purists are incredulous over an Amazon Prime Video version of It's a Wonderful Life , which they say plays like a Christmas movie with its heart surgically removed. The streamer is offering an abridged cut that runs about 22 minutes shorter…...
Betty Reid Soskin, 104, Shared Women's War Contributions
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (797+ words) Betty Reid Soskin, who rose to national fame as the oldest National Park Service ranger and used the spotlight to talk about the African American experience during World War II, has died. She was 104. Her family and the park service…...
One of the Last Pearl Harbor Survivors Dies
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (978+ words) World War II Navy veteran Ira "Ike" Schab, one of the dwindling number of survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 105. Daughter Kimberlee Heinrichs told the AP that Schab died at home in Oregon early…...
WWII Navy veteran Ira 'Ike' Schab, one of last remaining Pearl Harbor survivors, dies at 105
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (484+ words) World War II Navy veteran Ira "Ike" Schab, one of the dwindling number of survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 105. With his passing, there remain only about a dozen survivors of the surprise attack,…...