War Articles on June 13, 2013 at 13:45 ×
The Daily Mail reports: Historians seeking to identify troop of fallen WWI soldiers found in France Eric Saunders provided DNA sample to see if one was his great uncle Private Frederick Thompson was reported missing in action at the age of 20 Historians seeking to identify a troop of fallen World War One soldiers could be one step closer to [...]
War Articles on June 11, 2013 at 02:45 ×
Thanks in part to the Internet, a long-lost dog tag belonging to a U.S. Marine who served in the Vietnam War is about to be reunited with its owner. A photo of the tag (see above), which was found by chance two years ago by an Australian teacher visiting the site of the former U.S. military base in Khe Sanh, [...]
War Articles on June 7, 2013 at 23:45 ×
The son of a World War II airman who was lost when his aircraft was shot down over Germany 69 years ago says he welcomes all veterans to attend a memorial service Friday, as well as a graveside ceremony with full-military honors Saturday. Floyd County Judge Executive Robert “Doc” Marshall said he was only a year old when the B24-H [...]
War Articles on May 28, 2013 at 18:45 ×
Daily Mail: They were supposed to be back in time for lunch, but six crew members of a gunship over Vietnam nearly 50 years ago were tragically killed in a crash – and their families are still looking for answers this Memorial Day. Col Joseph Christiano of Rochester, N.Y.; Col Derrell B. Jeffords of Florence, South Carolina; Lt Col Dennis [...]
War Articles on May 16, 2013 at 02:45 ×
The Seattle Times reports: Pfc. Daniel Benedett, 19, of Auburn, died after a military helicopter came under heavy fire and crashed in the surf off Cambodia in May 1975. The remains of Pfc. Daniel Benedett, a 19-year-old Marine from Auburn who died after a U.S. helicopter crashed in the surf off Cambodia in May 1975, will be buried Wednesday at [...]
War Articles on May 4, 2013 at 23:45 ×
The Washington Post reports: Larry Duthie remembers studying his dog tags as he waited to be captured in the forest 20 miles south of Hanoi. He knew he was to give the enemy only his name, rank and serial number, and he wanted to do it correctly. A 24-year-old Navy pilot, he had just ejected from his damaged jet, smashing [...]
War Articles on May 1, 2013 at 11:45 ×
The astonishing claims of a 76-year-old man found living in Vietnam who says he is a U.S. war veteran presumed dead 44-years ago have been exposed as a hoax. The story of Sgt. John Hartley Robertson as told by a new documentary ‘Unclaimed’ gripped the world on Tuesday – raising the astounding possibility that an American POW escaped from his [...]
War Articles on April 30, 2013 at 13:45 ×
Remains of Affanasi Lenkov, a Russian soldier who died during the final stage of the World War II, was returned on Saturday to his homeland nation of Russia from Estonia, where he had “slept” for nearly 70 years. The returning ceremony was held just two weeks before the Victory Day at Ivangorod, a small town in western Russia bordering with [...]
War Articles on April 25, 2013 at 15:45 ×
DW.de reports: In the forests around Berlin lie perhaps tens of thousands of bodies, victims of the fierce battles of WWII and the vagaries of history. One man is digging up this past, determined to give the dead a proper burial. The Battle of Halbe in Brandenburg, eastern Germany, and many other similar battles during the Red Army’s gradual march [...]
War Articles on April 17, 2013 at 21:45 ×
Japan has vowed to locate the remains of an estimated 12,000 troops still missing since the Battle of Iwo Jima, a landmark World War II clash that killed nearly every Japanese soldier stationed on the remote Pacific island. Recently, documents from the U.S. National Archives helped lead recovery workers to two mass graves that may hold the bones of up [...]
