American POW swam to freedom in the Pacific during WWII
Eighty years ago, in 1944, U.S. Army Lt. Morris Shoss was a prisoner of war when the Japanese freighter he was sailing on with other American POWs was sunk by a U.S. Navy sub, adding to an already ...
500,000 WWII ‘phantom coins’ that were thought to have been destroyed found in Japan
A treasure trove of 500,000 ceramic coins from WWII, once thought destroyed, has been unearthed in a Japanese warehouse.
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WATCH | Rohwer Relocation Center a harsh reminder of WWII
Outdoor writer and photographer Corbet Deary is featured regularly in The Sentinel-Record. Today, Deary takes readers on a journey to Rohwer Relocation Center.
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CT man went from gatekeeper at the Groton sub base to serving on a sub in WWII
In September 1944, the Sealion was out on patrol when it and another sub sank the Rakuyo Maru, a Japanese civilian freighter that ... become the only submarine to sink a military ship in World War II, ...
Baseball returns to former Japanese American internment camp
In a California desert a few hours north of Dodger Stadium, Japanese Americans were held in camps during World War II, a dark ...