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NOAA camera dives down to sunken U.S. World War II ship — and finds a car inside
A vehicle was found in the hangar of the USS Yorktown, which was famously sunk by a Japanese submarine during the Battle of Midway in June 1942.
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Japan emperor visits World War II battleground Iwo Jima
Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Monday made a rare visit to the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima to mark the ...
Army Major honored at Miramar National Cemetery, decades after death in World War II
U.S. Army Maj. James J. O'Donovan of Cohoes, New York, was interred Tuesday at the national cemetery, 83 years after his ...
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Remains of American Soldier Captured by the Japanese During World War II Identified Nearly 80 Years Later
After his plane was shot down, Glenn H. Hodak was sent to a military prison in Tokyo, where he was killed by U.S. firebombing in May 1945 ...
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Japan emperor visits World War II battleground Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima (Japan) (AFP ... with one of the most famous photos of World War II -- showing a group of US Marines raising the American flag on the rubble-covered surface of Mount Suribachi.
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Remains of American Soldier Captured by the Japanese During World War II Identified Nearly 80 Years Later
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency An American soldier who was killed during World War II has been accounted for ... But investigators later realized that Japanese forces had captured Hodak as ...