Washington Post – Japan has acknowledged that it conducted only a limited investigation before claiming there was no official evidence that its imperial troops coerced Asian women into sexual slavery before and during World War II. A parliamentary statement signed Tuesday by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe acknowledged the government had a set of documents produced by a postwar international military [...]
‘I’VE been hit with open hands, closed fists, pieces of wood, iron bars and bamboo about two inches in diameter,” Tom Uren says. He was hardly more than a boy then – a prisoner-of-war and slave of the Japanese in his early 20s on the Burma-Thai railway. But Tom Uren would take many more hits as his long, often controversial [...]
WIESENTHAL CENTER: U.S. PAYMENTS TO WWII JAPANESE WAR CRIMINALS FOR DATA FROM HORRIFIC EXPERIMENTS, “A BLACK MARK ON U.S. HISTORY” Recently unearthed U.S. government documents revealed that members of Unit 731, the notorious group of Japanese scientists who performed inhumane medical experiments in Manchuria on prisoners before and during WWII, were paid for their expertise by the U.S. in exchange [...]
In the blazing heat of the Pilbara, some 36km south of Marble Bar in WA, in desolate semi-desert spinifex country, there can still be seen a few scarce remains of one of the best-kept secrets of Australian involvement in World War II. The heavily camouflaged and carefully hidden No. 73 Operational Base Unit was known as Corunna Downs – the [...]
The crew of the 458th Bombardment Squadron encountered inclement conditions as their B-29 flew over Iwo Jima toward Kobe, Japan, on a June 5, 1945, bombing mission. They reached their prescribed landfall, but electrical problems hindered the opening of the bomb bay doors. The crew managed to open the doors manually and flew through enemy anti-aircraft fire with the doors [...]
Early last year, just as NATO was stepping up its bombing campaign in Kosovo, the news broke that the United States was manufacturing 9,000 new Purple Hearts, the decoration that goes to American troops wounded in battle and the families of those killed in action. To the media, this seemed a clear indication that despite its pledge not to send [...]
The hunt for 36 lost RAF Spitfires at a Burmese airfield may not be completely over despite the failure to find a single rivet belonging to the aircraft. Rod Scott holds a piece of a PSP at the site Almost two weeks ago David Cundall’s dreams were – it seemed – about to be fulfilled. The Lincolnshire farmer and warplane [...]
Woody James had rarely felt so exhausted. Woody James: survivor It was shortly after midnight and he’d just finished his evening shift as look-out on theUSS Indianapolis. Now, he was looking forward to getting some rest. As he he stretched himself out on his bed, he was jolted to his senses by a massive thud. Seconds later, there was a [...]
A war hero who fought the Japanese died after discovering burglars had ransacked his home and stolen his treasured campaign medals. Second World War veteran Raymond Grinyer, 85, shook with shock, wept and struggled to breathe after finding his house had been repeatedly raided. The great-grandfather was taken to hospital but had a heart attack only hours later, surrounded by [...]
Blackjack, possibly the most famous bomber in the South West Pacific theatre of operations. ( S.W.P.T.) Ditched whilst returning from a raid on Rabaul, she now lies in 50 meters of water off Boga Boga village in the Milne Bay province of Papua New Guinea. Flown most of her life by Ken McCullar until he was killed in a take [...]
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