A US-based group is hoping to begin clearing the Marshall Islands of unexploded weapons, ammunition and ordinance left over from World War 2. The Marshall Islands was the scene of fierce fighting between the US and Japan during the Second World War. The US-based Golden West Humanitarian Foundation has just completed a survey of two of the country’s atolls, and [...]
THEY come in various forms and states of dilapidation — bunkers and pillboxes, tanks and machine guns as well as structures that would have been wiped off the earth if not for their extra thick cement walls and pillars. These are the places that have been mute witnesses to a bloody war that claimed thousands of lives on these islands [...]
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Don Moores War Tales tells the story of a B-24 tail gunner: Carl Driver of Alligator Mobile Home Park on Taylor Road south of Punta Gorda, Fla. was the tail gunner in a B-24 “Liberator” four-engine, heavy bomber dubbed “Passionate Witch.” They were part of the 13 Air Force, 50th Bomb Group, 23 Bomb Squadron that flew from a captured [...]
A team of munitions disposal experts from Japan is in Palau to remove unexploded bombs lying dormant since World War Two. The team intends to remove many hundreds of tonnes of depth charges, underwater in a shipwreck for seven decades. Matsuko Ikeda from the Japan Mine Action Service says they will begin the clearance work by May at the latest. [...]
World War II was a significant event in world history for several reasons. Most people know about the mass genocide that occurred in Europe during this war, but don’t know much about the way the war affected ordinary citizens or how things deteriorated to the point that Hitler and Mussolini were able to take power. Read on for 10 facts [...]
On Dec. 6, 1941, SSgt. Leo V. Johnson was more than ready for some action Bellows Field, Oahu, Hawaii, where Johnson was stationed, had been under alert for far too long and the 21-year-old farm boy from Twin Lake was ready for a change of scenery. “They called off the alert and gave us a weekend pass,” Johnson, now 92 [...]
The Corsair airplane wreck of Oahu is located approximately 3 miles out from the Hawaii Kai marina which is on Oahu’s south-east side. The Corsair plane wreck sits in 115 feet of blue Pacific Hawaiian waters in an upright position facing south west with the tail of the airplane pointing towards Koko Head.( 151 feet (46.02 meters) above sea level) Getting out [...]
The 28th (Maori) Battalion, with battle honours spanning multiple theatres in World War II, is to formally disband this weekend. Surviving members from each of its four companies reflect on their experiences fighting, sometimes literally, alongside their Maori brothers. A Coy Sol Te Whata, 95 today, reckons his uncle’s blessing before he left for World War II was one of [...]
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