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Japan PM Ishiba sends offering to war-linked Yasukuni shrine, no visit eyed

Kyodo 21 Apr 2025
Yasukuni honors Japan's wartime leaders, convicted as war criminals by a post-World War II international tribunal, along with millions of war dead ... Japan invaded a vast swath of China before World War ...
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Letter from China: Commemorating Doolittle Raid rescue -- a story of courage and friendship

China.dot.org 21 Apr 2025
HANGZHOU, April 21 (Xinhua) -- Growing up in China as part of Gen-Z, we are no strangers to stories of Americans and Chinese fighting side-by-side during World War II.
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Commemorating Doolittle Raid rescue -- a story of courage and friendship

Beijing News 21 Apr 2025
(Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi)by Xinhua writer Peng SonghanHANGZHOU, April 21 (Xinhua) -- Growing up in China as part of Gen-Z, we are no strangers to stories of Americans and Chinese fighting side-by-side during World War II.
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Japanese PM sends offering to notorious war-linked shrine

Xinhua 21 Apr 2025
The Yasukuni Shrine honors 14 convicted Class-A Japanese war criminals from World War II, including Hideki Tojo ... Japanese PM sends offering to notorious war-linked shrine.
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Elmer Keller, 97

Freeman Courier 21 Apr 2025
Elmer was drafted during World War II and completed his basic training ... German, so he became an interpreter and driver for an officer who surveyed the damage done by the Americans during World War II.
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Authors continue to be intrigued by the women in Hemingway’s life | DON NOBLE

Montgomery Advertiser 21 Apr 2025
His Women, His Wars, and His Writing" by describing Hemingway thusly ... He joined the Red Cross in World War I, covered the Spanish Civil War as journalist and got to the front lines in World War II, even though it was against the rules.
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Doolittle Raid commemoration held in east China to honor peace, friendship

People Daily 21 Apr 2025
bombers, led by Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle, took off from the USS Hornet and raided Japan during World War II as retaliation for the attack on Pearl Harbor ... and the World Anti-Fascist War.
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Pope Francis, known for promoting peace, helping refugees, dies at 88

Kyodo 21 Apr 2025
Francis, who in 2013 became head of the more than 1.3 billion Catholics around the world, was the first pontiff from Latin America and the first Jesuit pope ... atomic bombs in the final days of World War II.
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Linda Hunt’s “Secret Agenda” elaborates on Project Paperclip, the U.S. government’s secret recruitment of Nazi scientists

Natural News 21 Apr 2025
Project Paperclip, a secret U.S. intelligence program, brought over 1,600 German scientists and their families to the U.S. post-World War II,... .
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Fire investigators to continue work at Old Sarum Airfield

BBC News 21 Apr 2025
An investigation into the cause of a blaze at a Grade II*-listed World War One aircraft hangar will continue this week ... This video can not be played .
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Military History in Paulding County

The West Bend News 21 Apr 2025
He was the son of Civil War veteran Martin Van Buren Spencer, born February 17, 1841, in Darke ... On June 5, 1918, Hobart registered for the World War I draft ... Harvey would later serve in World War II.
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Star Wars series Andor back for final season

Dawn 21 Apr 2025
Andor is not the only hit Star Wars television series ... Part of the inspiration came from a French TV series about a village living under German occupation in World War II, A French Village.
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Trump tariffs part of a longer-term trend

Korea Times 21 Apr 2025
From early in World War II, the United States led a broad movement toward freer trade that has been the foundation of our unprecedented postwar prosperity. That may be changing. U.S ... Ap .
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