In the three years following the Battle of Midway, the Japanese built six aircraft carriers ... And there were all kinds of jobs.” World War II utterly transformed Mobile and its economy.
Japanese Canadians were shipped to interior B.C. aboard trains during the Second World War. Picture here, children looking out a train window on their way to internment camps. (National Archives ...
The bomb brought World War Two to a sudden end, but was it right to use it? The bomb was dropped to force a quick Japanese surrender ... thought at the time. WW2: Countdown to Hiroshima: The ...
It features a young Japanese man who crosses by ship to the Asian mainland, where he turns to illicit opium production to save ... period through Japan’s World War II defeat of 1945.
In May 1945, British forces crossed the Irrawaddy River in Burma and engaged a Japanese force, north of the Prome-Taungup road. With the tide of war changing in the allies favor, by May 9 ...
In January 1942, the Office of Naval Intelligence estimated only about 3,500 Japanese were a potential military threat and there was no need for a mass evacuation. 33,000 Japanese Americans served ...
Deep sea explorers have found two Japanese aircraft ... old cold case Bodies of US WW2 troops found on Pacific island Searching for Burma's forgotten World War Two heroes The crew deployed an ...