WWII Poster of the Week – November 17, 2019
This week’s WWII Poster of the Week is from the U.S. Army. Showing an unshaven Japanese soldier aiming down the sights of his rifle at the viewer, the poster declares […]
Pacific Theater
US Leaflet Dropped During Okinawa Invasion
A leaflet that American forces dropped over cities and towns in Okinawa in 1945, telling civilians what to do to avoid injury during the US invasion.
US Marine Who Inspired HBO’s “The Pacific” Dies
Author RV Burgin (Sgt, USMC ret.), who’s book inspired HBO’s miniseries “The Pacific” passes away at age 96
This Day in WWII: (1942) The Bataan Death March Begins
April 10, 1942: The Bataan Death March begins
Dick Cole, Last Doolittle Raider Dies at 103
The last living Doolittle Raider has died, at the age of 103. Richard “Dick” Cole was Col. Jimmy Doolittle’s copilot in the first B-25 bomber to lift off from the […]
Why World War II veterans are returning captured Japanese flags
One of the enduring images of WWII in the Pacific Theater is of US soldiers. Marines, and troops of Allied forces posing with captured Japanese flags. Hundreds, maybe thousands of […]
The WWII Poster of the Week – September 16, 2018
The WWII Poster of the Week for the week of September 16, 2018 is a reminder that armchair generals really have no idea about the cost of war.