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A bullet creased a Navy heart at Pearl Harbor and sparked a WWII love story
During their nearly 50 years together, Alice Darrow was fond of saying she filled the bullet-sized hole in her Navy husband’s heart from the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor with love.
‘Fuji Fire’ chronicles a largely forgotten Marine Corps tragedy in Japan
A retired Marine’s new book recounts the 1979 fire that killed 13 Marines and injured more than 70 others at a U.S. military training center near the base of Mount Fuji.
DOD agency IDs remains of 3 airmen killed at secret Laos radar site in 1968
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has identified the remains of three airmen killed in action in Laos in 1968 when their secret mountaintop radar site was overrun by North Vietnamese commandos.
Okinawans reflect on tragedy of war 80 years after bloody WWII battle
ITOMAN, Okinawa — Thousands filled Peace Memorial Park on Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Okinawa, as U.S.
‘He never came back’: Marine family helps add WWII medic’s name to Okinawa memorial
ITOMAN, Okinawa — Eighty years after Navy hospital corpsman Vernon “Monk” Martin was killed in the Battle of Okinawa, his name has been added to a
Okinawa-based Marine gets medal for role in WWII remains recovery on Guadalcanal
A Marine has been honored for helping recover American troops’ remains from a World War II battlefield in the Solomon Islands.
Japanese soldier killed in Battle of Okinawa ID’d by DNA, a first for Japan
Human remains discovered on Okinawa in 2004 have been identified as those of a Japanese soldier, marking the first time DNA alone was used to confirm the identity of a casualty from the Battle of Okinawa.