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Three airmen who died during a World War II bombing raid have been accounted for, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Thursday. The mission was carried out with a B-25C "Mitchell" bomber.
shovels and copies of the map on cellphones, prospectors have descended on Ommeren — population 715 — about 50 miles southeast of Amsterdam to try to dig up a potential World War II trove ...
To the list of World War II specialists in close combat—Edson ... At Pearl Harbor time he was on the way to Burma on a mission for Douglas MacArthur. Merrill stayed with Stilwell, became ...
PHILADELPHIA — The remains of a Philadelphia native killed on a bombing mission over Burma during World War II were identified late last year, nearly 80 years after his death, the Defense POW ...
Lt. John J. Heffernan, a long-missing casualty of World War II, finally came back to America on Tuesday. Nearly 80 years after perishing in a fiery crash in Burma when Japanese forces shot down ...
World War II ended 80 years ago and Edward J. Behling is among those still around who can give an account of a soldier’s viewpoint from that time. Behling is 101 and lives at his home in Portage.