59+ min ago  (113+ words) Sgt. Andrew Walsh, with A Company, 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (LI), served as the military escort to bring the remains of Pvt. Bennett H. Waters, a World War II prisoner of war, home to Blackshear, Georgia. Walsh, the…...

1+ hour, 13+ min ago  (461+ words) Posted by: Josh Levy This is a guest post by Manuscript Division archivist Katherine Madison. One letter, dated October 10, 1850, especially caught my eye: As an archivist and Library of Congress employee, my attention immediately zeroed in on these two sentences....

5+ hour ago  (69+ words) The Manila Times BREAKING: WWII heroes commemorated in Araw ng Kagitingan rites in Bataan Filipino and American soldiers who defended Bataan in the Second World War were commemorated at Mount Samat National Shrine. President Marcos praised the heroism of those…...

11+ hour, 15+ min ago  (399+ words) Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas is located in the Gulf of Mexico, 70 miles west of Key West. A newspaper article in the Harrisburg Telegraph (Harrisburg, Pa.) dated October 18, 1873 (page 2) describing Tupper's burial inside Fort Jefferson due to an incoming…...

1+ hour, 15+ min ago  (142+ words) KAGOSHIMA, (Japan): A Shidenkai fighter plane of the former Imperial Japanese Navy has been salvaged from the waters where it sank off Kagoshima Prefecture toward the end of World War II. About 400 Shidenkai planes were produced, intended to be a vital…...

5+ hour, 46+ min ago  (186+ words) Rudy Weisz | 04. 09. 26 1. Tactics are meaningless in the absence of strategy. 2. Risk is the seed of victory. 3. Wage war violently and relentlessly. 4. Mission command begets battlefield success. Meanwhile, at Cold Harbor, Grant grew frustrated with subordinate commanders who failed to seize…...

7+ hour ago  (271+ words) April 9, 2026 - The National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force has officially begun restoration efforts on a B-24 Liberator, marking a significant milestone in preserving one of World War II's most important aircraft. The B-24 is on loan from the National Museum…...

6+ hour, 34+ min ago  (667+ words) By FUJIO MIYATA/ Staff Writer April 9, 2026 at 17: 41 JST The wreckage of the Imperial Japanese Navy's Shiden Kai fighter aircraft is brought to the surface in Akune, Kagoshima Prefecture, on April 9. (Provided by the association for preserving Hokusatsu's war heritage for…...

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17+ hour, 5+ min ago  (198+ words) A Japanese fighter aircraft used during World War Two by the now-defunct Imperial Navy has been salvaged after lying underwater for 81 years. The Shidenkai fighter crash-landed on the sea off Akune City in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, after exchanging fire…...