Smithsonian Magazine1d
Remains of American Soldier Captured by the Japanese During World War II Identified Nearly 80 Years Later
After his plane was shot down, Glenn H. Hodak was sent to a military prison in Tokyo, where he was killed by U.S. firebombing ...
80 years after World War II, Okinawa’s battle sites are still giving up bones and bombs
An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...
The Daily News1dOpinion
Rico: The culture of shhh — what my Nazi legacy taught me about silence
Oskar Jakob, 94, is a Jewish Holocaust survivor who once assembled V-1 flying bombs in a subterranean concentration camp, and ...
National Catholic Register10d
Saved in 50 Seconds: The Story of Franciszek Gajowniczek, the Man Spared by St. Maximilian Kolbe at Auschwitz
When World War II broke out in 1939, Gajowniczek, now a sergeant, defended Wieluń — the first Polish city attacked by the ...
manilatimes14d
Myanmar relief camps receive last aid from WFP
MYITKYINA, Myanmar — Distraught Myanmar relief camp dwellers received final handouts from the World Food Program (WFP) on Wednesday as the United Nations agency begins halting aid to a million people ...
Hindustan Times14d
Myanmar relief camps receive last WFP aid as cuts begin
"I pray to God that the donors are blessed and are able to help us again," she told AFP in a camp outside the northeastern city of Myitkyina. "Please help us and pity us." Since the military ...
Yahoo! Sports15d
Club World Cup teams finalizing base camps, other logistics before event’s June start
Similar to the World Cup, which is a year away and features national teams, teams in the Club World Cup establish a home base camp for the duration of the tournament and travel to and from the ...
The Caledonian Record15d
Myanmar relief camps receive last WFP aid as cuts begin
Distraught Myanmar relief camp dwellers received final handouts from the World Food Programme on Wednesday as the UN agency begins halting aid to a million people in the country because funding ...
Greek Reporter18d
Greece Marks Departure of First Death Train to Auschwitz for Thessaloniki Jews
Thessaloniki had a population of more than 50,000 Jews before World War II — some 46,000 of whom ... and it is possible that deportation to Sobibor took place, since some Salonican Jews were liberated ...
The Mirror22d
Inside Mexican cartel death camp with piles of shoes where captives burned in ovens
A Mexican drug cartel death camp has been discovered with clandestine crematoriums where hundreds of missing people are thought to have been burned. The sickening scene was discovered around four ...
The Financial Times22d
US and Ukraine hold talks on ending war with Russia
US and Ukrainian delegations held high-stakes talks in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday that Kyiv hopes can repair its fraught relationship with Washington and restart American weapons delivery and ...