Inside a tiny museum in San Francisco’s Japantown, there is a powerful message about the atrocities of the atomic bomb. “Americans see the bomb as a beautiful mushroom cloud, and the Japanese who were on the ground see it as ground zero, the devastation, the 70,000 people who lost their lives in an instant,” said…
China has invited descendants of the American Flying Tigers to Beijing for the commemoration of the end of World War II, according to people familiar with the situation. A source said they include Cynthia Chennault, the daughter of Claire Lee Chennault who commanded the volunteers who helped in China’s fight against Japan, and one of…
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has confirmed he will attend China’s World War II commemorations next month, making him the first EU leader to publicly announce his plans to be at the event, which will feature a military parade in Tiananmen Square. “Apparently, I will visit China again on the occasion of the celebration of…
Jr. NTR’s Bollywood debut film ‘War 2’, starring Hrithik Roshan, is set to release on August 14. This film will mark a new identity for him in the Hindi film industry. His fans all over the world are waiting for the release. Among them, Nandamuri Tarak Rama Rao’s fans in Britain have organized a grand…
Explorers on a quest to study a famed wartime shipwreck site have discovered new artifacts from one lost American destroyer. The USS DeHaven, which was sunk during an attack off the Solomon Islands in World War II, still has torpedoes and a bell that are largely intact, according to the Ocean Exploration Trust, a nonprofit…
Eighty years after a U.S. military airman went missing in World War II, his family received a token to remember him by: a Zippo lighter, inscribed with “Musashe 1943” and parts of the service number once assigned to its owner, Army Air Corps Staff Sgt. Michael Musashe. The lighter came into the family’s possession after…
Imagine this: U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin stand on either side of Chinese President Xi Jinping atop Beijing’s Tiananmen Tower, watching a Chinese military parade. What would that image evoke? Certainly a political storm and a wave of harsh criticism from Western media directed at Trump. But it might also be…
The severed bow of the famed American warship USS New Orleans has been found by researchers during seafloor mapping operations in the Pacific Ocean. The bow was discovered resting about 675 meters deep in the Solomon Islands’ Iron Bottom Sound, the site of five major naval battles, the Ocean Exploration Trust said Tuesday in a…
China’s Foreign Ministry said Monday it does “not have any information” about reports that US President Donald Trump will be invited to a military parade in Beijing later this year, according to state media. Japan’s Kyodo News reported Sunday that China was planning to invite Trump to a military parade at Tiananmen Square on Sept….
“Spitfire Women” tells the story of heroic women who flew missions during World War II – CBS News Watch CBS News May 8 marks 80 years since people across Europe celebrated the Allied victory over Nazi Germany. While the fighting in the Pacific would continue for months, many saw it as the end of six…