Remains of captured WWII U.S. airman identified as Cpl. Glenn Hodak
Forensics investigators identified the remains of U.S. Army Air Forces Cpl. Glenn Hodak nearly 80 years after his B-29 bomber ...
Activist demands Japan revoke award for US general behind 500,000 deaths in WWII
Gushiken Takamatsu said Curtis LeMay, who orchestrated the firebombing, should never have been given the honour.
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LeMay, Albright & Trump: 3 US Officials Who Confessed To US Mass Murder Of Civilians
The World must act to stop the ongoing and horrific Gaza Genocide by urging and applying rigorous Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against genocidally racist Apartheid Israel and all ...
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Palestine is in the end game. Australia can’t surrender to the inevitability that more will die
Israel has returned to indiscriminate bombing of Gaza, with blockades to humanitarian aid defying international law. We must ...
Japanese WWII survivor recounts the fire and fury as her city burned.
ON her sixth birthday 80 years ago, Shizuko Nishio clung to her mother as US B-29 bombers started a firestorm that turned ...
Wall Street Journal14d
‘Rain of Ruin’ Review: Fire From the Skies
Malcolm Gladwell’s “The Bomber Mafia” (2021) focuses on the apostles of strategic bombing, notably Maj. Gen. Curtis LeMay, the chief architect of the firebombings. James M. Scott’s brilliant “Black ...
The Economist21d
Alexis Dudden on the firebombing of Tokyo and on post-war struggles to keep it remembered
In all, Major General Curtis LeMay sent 279 B-29 bombers from the United States Army Air Forces low over Tokyo to destroy the historical heart of the capital, Shitamachi, a working-class area by ...
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Vandenberg SFB to modernize intercontinental ballistic missile infrastructure starting Thursday
VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. – On Thursday, Lieutenant Colonel Suzanne Lamar will assume command of a group modernizing the testing and evaluation infrastructure at Vandenberg Space Force ...