Our expertise enables us to reconstruct the service history of your individual WWII veteran and to give you a glimpse of the experiences that he or she had during the war-even if their military service records were lost in the fire Army Soldiers Army Air Corps Army WAC’s Navy Sailors ...
War criminals Sergeant Jiro Shimoda and Captain Harochi Yonemura were executed in Shanghai, China. Shimoda had plundered and raped Chinese civilians during the occupation, including several murders committed at Jianying 85 miles northwest of Shanghai on the date of the surrender. Yonemura had ordered...
Publication of world war records : hearings before the Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, Seventieth Congress, second session on H.J. Res. 359, February 28, 1929.John M. Morin
America officially only enter World War 2 two years into the war on December 8, 1941, when all but one member of Congress passed the motion one day after theattack on Pearl Harborin Hawaii. Although America formally maintained neutrality up until that moment, the U.S. has long been involve...
two years earlier). On 29 September, his artillery brigade were supporting the 27th American Division in their attack on the German line between Nouroy and Gouy, between St Quentin and Cambrai, as part of a more general push to break the Hindenburg Line. The brigade war diary records the ...
another Norwegian ship. Originally it was thought that the Manx had hit a mine however, records show that U-19 had indeed claimed a merchant ship on this date, Schepke made no mention of the ship being Norwegian therefore neutral.ww2dbase[Start of the Battle of the Atlantic|North Sea|CPC...
requested the address of the family that was tending his son’s grave at Bény-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery in France, to thank them. The Director of War Service Records, Department of Veterans Affairs, provided this response, which helped to connect the grieving family in Canada with French...
World War IIwas the largest conflict in human history and devastated Europe, Asia, North Africa, and large portions of the Pacific. It began as two separate wars: one involvingJapanagainst China in the 1930s; the other involving Germany against Poland, France, and Great Britain in 1939. With...
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War began for the UK in September 1939, more than two years before the US formally entered the war in December 1941. Although entering the war later than the other combatants, the United States Navy (USN) ultimately had more carriers afloat during the war than the combined total for the ...