U.S. soldier accounted for more than 80 years after being killed in WWII

A U.S. Army soldier who earned the prestigious Medal of Honor during World War II has been accounted for more than eight ...

World War II Medal of Honor recipient to return home for burial, 80 years after his death

World War II US Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi survived two chest wounds from Japanese gunfire, the Bataan Death March, wretched captivity in prisoner-of-war camps and the sinking of his first POW ...
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Remains of northern Wisconsin World War II veteran accounted for nearly 81 years after death

The remains of a northern Wisconsin World War II veteran killed nearly 81 years ago have been accounted for, according to a ...
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The Japanese Submariner Who Became America's First WWII Prisoner After Pearl Harbor

Sergeant David Akui walked along Waimanalo Beach on the morning of Dec. 8, 1941, and spotted what he thought was a sea turtle ...
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Wisconsin WWII hero Cpl. John Ginzl identified decades after his 1945 death

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has announced that U.S. Army Air Forces Cpl. John J. Ginzl, 27, of Rhinelander, ...

Inside West Berlin in 1961—just after the wall went up

When the Berlin Wall went up overnight, National Geographic correspondents were on hand to document a city that became a ...
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Why a pair of tribal reservations were picked to hold Japanese Americans in Arizona

Long before World War II, the U.S. Army rounded up Native Americans onto reservations — drawing in their new boundaries. And ...