10+ hour, 2+ min ago  (504+ words) The Pacific War started in late 1941 and continued until 1945. However, tensions between Japan and the West are best traced back to the '30s with the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. Following the Japanese occupation of Manchuria in '32, America pursued an economic trade…...

8+ hour, 46+ min ago  (757+ words) "That was Lionel's nature," Craig Johnstone, Rosenblatt's colleague and co-conspirator in the mission, told As It Happens host Nil K'ksal." "He believed in just jumping into the problems, sorting your way through them on the fly, and he was extraordinarily…...

12+ hour, 7+ min ago  (664+ words) General George Patton won the war and lost the peace. Stripped of command after comparing Nazis to Democrats and Republicans, exiled to write history books, he died 12 days after a car accident in December 1945. The war he was born to…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (49+ words) MONTOURSVILLE, LYCOMING COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) " A Navy veteran who survived one of the deadliest attacks on a US ship in modern history shared his story Monday night in Lycoming County. Larry Bowen spoke at a public event in Montoursville about…...

15+ hour, 34+ min ago  (381+ words) Viscount? How old is this? This happened in 1978. You might want to warn the readers that they can look all day long for the date and not find when it happened. They stopped production on the Viscount in 1963 and the…...

18+ hour, 41+ min ago  (1911+ words) My friend Tony has a line about his time spreading "freedom" in Iraq. He says it flat, like he's talking about the weather. "We were mostly getting blown up," he says. "That was our day." He says this in the…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (21+ words) Japanese anti-aircraft fire is believed to have shot down the Heaven Can Wait, a B-24 D Liberator bomber, in 1944....

21+ hour, 46+ min ago  (638+ words) Twenty-two years to the day before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a young George Washington penned his name in defeat as he surrendered for the first and only time in his storied military career. It was at Fort…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (926+ words) The plane was damaged and flying was a challenge, but the 30-minute flight was just another day at the office." This is how retired South African Air Force (SAAF) pilot Colin Green described the faithful flight at the steer of…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (875+ words) April 28, 2026 (Mainichi Japan) MIYAZAKI, Japan (Kyodo) -- A chance discovery of a metal fragment on a mountainside in southwestern Japan led one man to uncover a forgotten wartime crash -- and reconnect grieving families from both sides of World War II. In September…...