Most Americans are ignorant of Russia’s incredible contribution to the defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan. Americans can barely remember the details of World War II and worse still they do not want to be bothered with more than a cursory review of the details, subtleties and chance that WWII was. What the US populace knows of Russia’s efforts in [...]
The remains of 431 Soviet army soldiers killed during a World War II battle in Poland were reburied over the weekend, Russian military officials said. Vyacheslav Polovinkin, the head of the Russian Defense Ministry office in charge of military memorials in Poland, said the remains of the Soviet soldiers killed during the 1945 Siege of Kustrin in western Poland were [...]
Lieutenant John Harold Pritchard and Private Christopher Douglas Elphick, of The Honourable Artillery Company (HAC), will be reinterred in the HAC Cemetery in northern France. Both men were killed on May 15, 1917, during an enemy attack, while serving with the NAC’s 2nd Battalion.The men’s remains were found in a field near Bullecourt in 2009. Today, their relatives will attend [...]
World War I will be remembered as one of the bloodiest wars in human history. Millions of soldiers died on both sides, and whole generations of young men were wiped out. Armies were bogged down in impenetrable trenches, resulting in thousands dying in futile assaults against fortified enemies. The war also introduced new and terrible weapons, such as the machine [...]
Heinz Mutschinski, now 88, is one of them. As a 19-year old German soldier he nearly became one of the buried soldiers in the fields in Klessin. “Helping here is my therapy,” he said. This is the fourth time he is working with a non-profit group that works to uncover fallen soldiers in eastern Europe. “We want to give the [...]
THE service of 253 Australians who lost their lives flying in Sunderland squadrons in World War II has been remembered with the dedication of a new wall at Rathmines Memorial Park. President of the RAAF Association NSW Sunderland Squadrons branch Peter Jensen, 91, said his organisation had overseen the creation of memorials around the world to fallen comrades from 10 [...]
Tears roll down Heitaro Matsumoto’s face as the 72-year-old businessman talks of an uncle who died on Guam as a Japanese soldier in the hopeless final weeks of World War 2. The remains of Goro Matsumoto, in his mid-20s at the time of his death, have never been recovered. Nor have those of 18 000 other Japanese soldiers who died [...]
Arlington National Cemetery is the final resting place for more than 400,000 active duty service members, veterans and their families. Service to country is the common thread that binds all who are remembered and honored here. Arlington is both a national treasure and an active cemetery. The cemetery conducts between 27 and 30 funerals each week day and between six [...]
An Australian trekker said he has discovered the site of a significant World War II battle in the jungles of Papua New Guinea, complete with the remains of Japanese soldiers right where they fell almost 70 years ago. Former army Capt. Brian Freeman, an expert on the Kokoda Trail – a 60-mile trek through rugged mountainous country and rainforest of [...]
Six family members of Japanese World War II soldiers were in Indonesia on Monday, along with representatives from each nation’s government, in order to receive the remains of their kin that died in battle from a village in the easternmost province of Papua. Residents of the village gave them some 9,000 bone fragments of 134 Japanese soldiers who, until now, [...]
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