Deep-sea explorers have found the wreck of a Japanese transport ship which sank off the Philippines, killing nearly 1,000 Australian troops and civilians in World War Two. It was Australia’s worst maritime disaster: a US submarine torpedoed the ship unaware that it was packed with prisoners captured in Papua New Guinea. The Montevideo Maru sank …
For more than seven decades, Martin Adler treasured a black-and-white photo of himself as a young American soldier with a broad smile with three impeccably dressed Italian children he is credited with saving as the Nazis retreated northward in 1944. On Monday, the 97-year-old World War II veteran met the three siblings — now octogenarians …
He describes General MacArthur as “quite a guy.” In commemoration of the 75th year of World War II in the Philippines, one of its heroes returned. Richard “Dick” Adams visited Corregidor once again, but this time, he did not parachute out of a C-47 plane to land on the towering trees of the Rock. …
Donald Stratton, one of the last USS Arizona survivors from Pearl Harbor who fought for the recognition of one of his heroic shipmates, died Saturday night in his sleep, his granddaughter told Fox News. Stratton died of natural causes in Colorado Springs, Colo., his family said. He was 97. The Navy veteran said it wasn’t until …
D-Day-veteraan Jim Booth poseert voor de fotografen AFP De Franse president schudt de hand van een veteraan AFP In de Engelse kuststad Portsmouth is vandaag D-day herdacht met een show vol muziek, theater, speeches en veel militair vertoon. Vandaag 75 jaar geleden begon daar de bevrijding. Vanuit Portsmouth vertrokken toen 150.000 geallieerde militairen om in …
In Den Haag zijn vanmiddag de capitulatie van Japan in de Tweede Wereldoorlog herdacht en de slachtoffers in het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden die in de strijd tegen Japan zijn gevallen. Het is vandaag 73 jaar geleden dat de Japanse keizer Hirohito in een radiotoespraak de overgave aan de geallieerden bekendmaakte. Uiteraard was ook de Stichting …
100-year-old Bataan Death March survivor Col. Ben Skardon, a beloved Clemson University alumnus and professor emeritus, walked between 6.5 and 7 miles in the Bataan Memorial Death March at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., March 25, 2018. KEN SCAR/CLEMSON UNIVERSITY By ALI LINAN | Las Cruces Sun-News, N.M. (Tribune News Service) | Published: March 25, …
By Rebecca Burgess January opened with President Donald Trump’s directive to the various Secretaries of Defense, Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security to formulate a “Joint Action Plan” for supporting veterans in their transition to civilianhood by expanding suicide prevention resources. January ended with the viral video of a California schoolteacher lambasting present, past, and future …
Bron: De Telegraaf, Olof van Joolen, 30 oktober 2017