Topic: world-war-ii

USS Johnston (DD-557), deepest shipwreck recorded, found off Samar Island

USS Johnston (DD-557), deepest shipwreck recorded, found off Samar Island

Caladan Oceanic/ AFP Photo
Posted at Apr 06 11:39 AM

This handout photograph taken on March 31, 2021 and released on April 3, 2021 by Caladan Oceanic shows the main wreckage of the USS Johnston (DD-557), a US Navy Fletcher-class destroyer that sank during the Battle of Samar in World War II, resting on the ocean floor off Samar Island in the Philippines.  Read more »

Commemorating the Battle of Manila

Commemorating the Battle of Manila

Mores Heramis, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 03 01:54 PM

Manila City Mayor Francisco "Isko Moreno" Domagoso leads the wreath laying ceremony at the White Cross inside the Fort Santiago, Intramuros as the city commemorates the 76th year of the Battle of Manila on Wednesday. Read more »

How Shanghai saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust

How Shanghai saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust

Peter Stebbings, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jan 26 12:32 PM

Six million Jews perished during the worst genocide in human history but Kurt Wick and six other members of his family were able to escape Europe for Shanghai because it was one of the very few destinations that did not require an entry visa. Read more »

S. Korea seeks 'amicable solution' to comfort women issue with Japan

S. Korea seeks 'amicable solution' to comfort women issue with Japan

Kyodo News
Updated as of Jan 24 10:56 AM

South Korea on Saturday reacted to a court order for Japan to compensate former "comfort women" over their treatment in Japanese military brothels by vowing to seek an "amicable solution" and "make every effort to continue constructive and future-oriented cooperation" with its neighbor. Read more »

Honoring a WWII U.S. Jewish soldier at the Manila American Cemetery

Honoring a WWII U.S. Jewish soldier at the Manila American Cemetery

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 29 02:31 PM

Representatives of the Embassy of Israel and Operation Benjamin leave small stones on the gravestone of U.S. Cpl. Sam Cordova as an act of remembrance on his 79th death anniversary, during the headstone changing rites at the American Cemetery in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City, Tuesday. Read more »

Massive WWII 'earthquake bomb' found near Baltic Sea

Massive WWII 'earthquake bomb' found near Baltic Sea

Stanislaw Waszak, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 12 02:03 PM

The five-ton device -- nicknamed "Tallboy" and also known as an "earthquake bomb - was designed to explode underground next to a target, triggering shock waves that would cause destruction. The bomb is six meters (19 feet) long and has 2.4 tons of explosives. Read more »

2 men working to map World War II bombs are killed by one

2 men working to map World War II bombs are killed by one

Livia Albeck-Ripka, The New York Times
Posted at Sep 22 07:18 AM

An Australian and a Briton working to map a deadly legacy of unexploded munitions from World War II have been killed in the South Pacific nation of the Solomon Islands after a bomb they were working on detonated. Read more »

TikTok Holocaust videos 'hurtful', says Auschwitz museum

TikTok Holocaust videos 'hurtful', says Auschwitz museum

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Aug 27 09:56 AM

POLAND - The Auschwitz museum on Wednesday called a new trend for users of video-sharing platform TikTok to role-play Holocaust victims "hurtful and offensive," but added that it did not want to shame young people involved. Read more »

Omikuji offering

Omikuji offering

Philip Fong, AFP
Posted at Aug 14 11:40 PM

A visitor attaches a fortune telling slip of paper, also known as "omikuji", to a display during her visit to Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Friday, one day before the 75th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II. Read more »

Nagasaki marks 75th anniversary of U.S. atomic bombing

Nagasaki marks 75th anniversary of U.S. atomic bombing

Ayano Shimizu, Kyodo News
Updated as of Aug 09 12:16 PM

The mayor of Nagasaki on Sunday pushed the Japanese government to take more action toward realizing a world free of nuclear weapons, amid a global retreat of leadership on the issue, at a memorial ceremony on the 75th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city. Read more »

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