Japanese children, seeing a Marine for the first time, eagerly reach for chocolates offered them by SSgt Henry A. Weaver, III. (National Archives) By Morton Stith I worked as a Bomb Disposal Marine, a part of World War II that seems to have been wiped from history. Our mission was to neutralize
By Daria Sommers Lisa Rogak’s new book Propaganda Girls: the Secret War of the Women in the OSS brings to light the clandestine roles played by a select group of American women who served in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. Their job was to psych out the enemy through information
Written by Todd DePastino In a special livestream with the Explorer Vessel Nautilus crew of the Ocean Exploration Trust, we heard about the crew's recent deep-sea discovery of the long-lost bow of the USS New Orleans (CA-32) in the waters of Iron Bottom Sound off Guadalcanal. This remarkable find sheds new light on a dramatic
Ila Cole, Navy WAVE, San Francisco I was a Specialist V, 2nd Class, Transport Airman, stationed in San Francisco in 1945. Essentially, I was an airline stewardess. We flew C-54 Skymasters (except in the Navy, we called them R-5Ds) between Moffett Field, California and Honolulu. Sometimes, we flew the Martin Mars aircraft, which was
Hirohito, Emperor Shōwa, 1935. (Public Domain) By Todd DePastino The Atomic Bomb that destroyed Hiroshima effectively ended the Pacific War. Japan’s perfidy at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, was fully repaid with the nuclear strike on August 6, 1945. Because of the Bomb, Japan’s surrender was inevitable. That’s the history most
Vietnam veteran Bill Kapito passed along the letter below written by his uncle Pfc. William Silberman, who was killed in Italy on April 12, 1945. Silberman was a member of C Company, 168th Regiment, 34th Division, a unit that saw 517 days in combat in World War II. He had joined the unit in
