Rossi signed up for the AVG in 1941 and arrived in China as a pilot. On Dec. 20, the AVG had its first air battle in China, shooting down nine Japanese bombers that attacked Kunming in southwest China. In just seven months, the AVG shot down 299 planes in over 50 battles against the...
Rossi signed up for the AVG in 1941 and arrived in China as a pilot. On Dec. 20, the AVG had its first air battle in China, shooting down nine Japanese bombers that attacked Kunming in southwest China. In just seven months, the AVG shot down 299 planes in over 50 battles against the...
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Nearly every video games about WW2 are featured on the European theater, sometime maybe the Pacific theater, but nearly none of them mention about the Chinese battlefield. In the Eight Years War of Resistance (as WW2 called in China) the ROC suffered...
Putin always surprises, and he always does things on his own timeline, thus winning all strategic battles, even if it may seem like tactically the energy was against him. This time, for the 75th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War (WWII in the West), he published an article...
Under the colonization of the Japanese, prisoners of war and enslaved civilians were subjected to forced labor for their captors in harsh and often inhumane conditions. A series of land battles were fought by Japan against China, Burma, and New Guinea. Despite early successes, Japan’s resources...
Dave Schwarz, a 1965 Terry High graduate and editor of the Terry Tribune in the early 2000’s, remembers a night when he was about 10 years old. “Before my dad and mother (Shirley) went square dancing, he would set up the movie projector and I would watch his film all night.” ...
Fighting, Fear and Friendship WWII China-Burma-India Veterans Forged Bonds amid Fierce BattlesEditor's note: Tomorrow we observe Memorial Day, among the most patriotic holidays in the United States -- a day to honor Americans who gave their lives for their country.Carter, John R...
"My mission was to win battles, to defeat Japan, and hopefully to survive intact," he said. "We sailed from Guadalcanal on March 13, 1945 -- my 19th birthday. On April 1, 1945, we landed in Okinawa," Whitaker said. The Battle of Okinawa lasted 82 days and was one of WWII's fier...
Upon graduation in 1942 and 1943, several of Whitaker's friends joined the military. Whitaker joined up in the summer of 1944 and landed at Guadalcanal with the Sixth Marine Division just six months later. "My mission was to win battles, to defeat Japan, and hopefully to survive intact," ...