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Korean War hero, Medal of Honor recipient returns to Navy aviation school to congratulate the graduates
1+ hour, 13+ min ago (454+ words) Medal of Honor recipient retired Capt. E. Royce Williams poses with the 29 graduates of Naval Introductory Flight Evaluation at Naval Aviation Schools Command aboard Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla., on July 15, 2026. Williams, the oldest living Medal of Honor recipient, earned his…...
Unearthed artifacts provide glimpse of aviation history at air base in Japan
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (600+ words) Japanese representatives receive World War II-era Imperial Japanese Army Air Service aircraft artifacts at Yokota Air Base, Japan, July 1, 2026. The artifacts were discovered during a construction project on the installation and were transferred for continued research and preservation. (Kaori Matsukasa…...
Pacific nations alarmed by Chinese missile test
1+ week, 4+ day ago (436+ words) China fired a nuclear-capable missile on Monday into the South Pacific Ocean, prompting complaints from Australia, New Zealand and Japan. China’s state-run Xinhua news agency that afternoon announced a ballistic missile test. “The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy on Monday…...
Air Force veteran who died on Okinawa helped launch snowmobiling veterans group in Alaska
3+ week, 14+ hour ago (607+ words) A U.S. Air Force veteran who recently died while snorkeling in Okinawa helped launch an Alaska organization that takes veterans out on the grueling Iron Dog snowmobile race. James J. Chopik, 48, a civilian employee who deployed to Japan with the 90th Expeditionary Fighter…...
US veterans at air base in Japan resurrect fallen friend’s crash-damaged motorcycle
3+ week, 14+ hour ago (713+ words) YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Motorcycle riders at this airlift hub in western Tokyo have restored a Japanese sport bike damaged in a crash that took the life of a former American airman. Peter James Davidson, a civilian aircraft maintainer at…...
US civilian who died snorkeling on Okinawa was Air Force veteran from Alaska
3+ week, 1+ day ago (391+ words) A sign warns swimmers of dangerous conditions at Odo Coast in Itoman city, Okinawa, on June 25, 2026. (Ryan M. Breeden/Stars and Stripes) A U.S. civilian who died Wednesday while snorkeling at a popular beach in southern Okinawa was an Air Force veteran…...
US troops on EOD duty for World War II-era bombs in Papua New Guinea
3+ week, 3+ day ago (607+ words) An AN-M65 U.S. World War II general-purpose bomb found embedded in the ground during Operation Render Safe in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, June 18, 2026. (Nan Yang/U.S. Marine Corps) American service members have wrapped up a three-week mission to dispose of unexploded wartime…...
Families of WWII airmen executed, and families of executioners, stand together in Japan
3+ week, 3+ day ago (657+ words) Kounen Ujida, the chief priest of at Aburayama Kannon Temple, chants a sutra during a World War II memorial ceremony, in Fukuoka, Japan, June 20, 2026. (Janiqua Robinson/Stars and Stripes) FUKUOKA, Japan — Descendants of U.S. airmen captured and executed in Japan…...
Searchable 3D map highlights names of US casualties at WWII Battle of Okinawa
11+ mon, 2+ day ago (641+ words) Ikemiya Shokai Co. Ltd. president Taku Ikemiyagi and sales associate Kaneto Fukuhara check 3D images of names at the Cornerstone of Peace monument at Peace Memorial Park in Itoman city, Okinawa, on July 15, 2025. (Keishi Koja/Stars and Stripes) ITOMAN CITY, Okinawa…...
From the archives: Tammy Duckworth greets a WWII veteran in Washington, 2010
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (74+ words) Stars and Stripes From the archives: Tammy Duckworth greets a WWII veteran in Washington, 2010 (Felicia Joseph/Stars and Stripes) Washington, March 11, 2010: L. Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq War veteran now serving as Assistant Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, greets World…...