Sen. Jack Reed honored Tiverton’s Sgt. Daniel Rapoza, a World War II airman killed in action in 1944, presenting his family ...
TOKYO: During World War II, the Japanese military constructed the Thai-Burma Railway connecting Thailand and Burma, now Myanmar.
December 13, 1943 - 2nd Lt. Philip R. Adair of the famed Burma Banshees takes to the skies over Assam in his P-40 Lulubelle. The first in the air after the alarm, he spots what he thinks are just a ...
He was captured by the Japanese in Singapore and was one of thousands of prisoners whose hardships were the basis for the film “The Bridge on the River Kwai.” By Richard Sandomir Jack Jennings, a ...
On December 23, 2022, President Biden signed into law the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (NDAA 2023; P.L. 117–263). Included in the NDAA 2023 was a modified ...
This story was sumbitted to the website by Eleanor Fell on behalf of Peggy Harris, who has given her permission fro her story to appear on the website. I was a nurse in the Burma Military Nursing ...