Dr. Robert Shoss looks over a collection of WWII artifacts pertaining to his late father, U.S. Army Lt. Milton Shoss, on Oct. 21 at Dr. Shoss’ home in Albany. West Point graduate Milton Shoss survived ...
FUKUOKA, Japan - “Eighty years ago today, (my father, Lt. Kentaro Toji) was one of the executioners in an incident involving captured Airmen,” said Katsuya Toji. “Although he was following orders, he ...
Dozens of American military prisoners of war died in Tokyo amid the U.S. firebombing of Japan as World War II reached a crescendo in the Pacific, and later their commingled remains were buried in the ...
Jeff Himler Sunday, May 25, 2025 12:01 a.m. | Sunday, May 25, 2025 12:01 a.m. Two Westmoreland County airmen who survived the loss of their B-29 bombers during separate World War II missions over ...
TOKYO (AP) — The prisoners of war held in Tokyo’s Omori POW camp saw some of the most horrific destruction during the last months of World War II, as American B-29 bombers dropped incendiary bombs ...
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that U.S. Army Cpl. James M. Walker of Pawnee, who was captured and ...
Eight-two years to the day after he died in a Japanese prisoner of war camp, U.S. Army Air Forces Pfc. Charles R. Powers has returned home to Riverside. Powers died at age 26 on July 18, 1942 after ...
On Feb. 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which resulted in the mass incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans to “relocation centers” during World War II, after ...
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