China’s military is going to war against itself
Two recent waves of purges — the first beginning in 2023 and ending in the middle of last year and the second beginning in ...
WWII troops took hammers to mosquitoes to battle pests and malaria
Malaria could be as dangerous to GIs in the Pacific theater of World War II as the enemy. To fight it, they used hammers and ...
Volunteer discovers over a thousand World War II casualties’ remains which await identification
Takamatsu Gushiken has spent years voluntarily locating bodies, and fragments of bodies, of World War II victims in Japan’s ...
Military Times13d
Okinawan bone digger searches for remains from WWII battle
As a volunteer cave digger, Takamatsu Gushiken has unearthed the remains of several hundred people killed in one of the ...
The Columbian13d
Japanese digger searches for WWII remains: ‘Best way to honor war dead is never to allow another war’
Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headtorch and enters a cave buried in Okinawa’s jungle. He gently runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge. These are from the ...
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Volunteer searching for WWII dead in Japanese caves unearths remains of hundreds of people
Gushiken says when he was a child growing up in Okinawa's capital, Naha, he would go out hunting bugs and find skulls still wearing helmets. Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II ...
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An Okinawan bone digger searches for remains from one of the fiercest battles of World War II
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Eighty years on from the Battle of Okinawa during World War II, the remains of some of those killed are ...
Okinawan bone digger searches for the remains of WWII dead and worries their lessons are unheard
Takamatsu Gushiken hunts caves in Okinawa’s jungles for the bones of those who died in the WWII Battle of Okinawa, one of the ...
The Daily Telegraph19d
Chaos, confusion and ice-covered wings: The WW2 mission that every pilot dreaded
In WW2 commemorations, little will be said of an Allied effort to fly supplies over the Himalayas to China, but its risk was infamous Jump to content UK News Website of the Year 2024 ...
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World War II shows that aggression will end in failure, Taiwan tells China
TAIPEI -Taiwan’s Defence Ministry said on Feb 28 that the history of World War II shows that aggression and expansion will end in failure, responding to Chinese comments that the island would ...