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Heroes

Chiune Sugihara: The Japanese Schindler

📍 Kaunas, Lithuania · 1940
Heroes

Chiune Sugihara Writing Visas on a Train

📍 Kaunas, Lithuania · 1940
Strange

The Bat Bomb: An American Weapon That Almost Was

📍 United States · 1942
Pacific

The Ghost Army of New Guinea: The Papuan Infantry Battalion

📍 New Guinea / Bougainville · 1942
Pacific

The Filipino 'Terror Force' — Macario Peralta's Guerrilla Army

📍 Panay Island, Philippines · 1942
Intelligence

The Navajo Code Talkers' Unbroken Code

📍 Pacific Theater · 1942
Asian Theater

The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru

📍 Dongji Island, China · 1942
Pacific

The Ghost Soldiers of Bataan: The Escape Nobody Knows

📍 Bataan, Philippines · 1942
Pacific

The Coastwatchers of the Solomon Islands

📍 Bougainville, Solomon Islands · 1942
Asian Theater

The Chindits: Behind Enemy Lines in Burma

📍 Burma · 1943
Pacific

The Battle of Attu — The Only U.S. Territory Captured by the Japanese

📍 Attu Island, Alaska · 1943
Pacific

The Forgotten Nisei Linguists — Japanese-American Intelligence in the Pacific

📍 Pacific Theater · 1943
Asian Theater

Orde Wingate's Chindits and the Airfield Built in the Jungle

📍 Burma · 1943
Asian Theater

The Burma Railway Termites — How POWs Sabotaged the Death Railway from the Inside

📍 River Kwai, Thailand · 1943
Pacific

Nisei Linguists Shortened the Pacific War by Two Years

📍 Pacific Theater · 1943
Strange

The Japanese Balloon Bombs That Reached America

📍 Pacific / Oregon, USA · 1944
Pacific

The Ghost Fleet of Truk Lagoon

📍 Truk Lagoon, Micronesia · 1944
Heroes

The 442nd Regimental Combat Team: Most Decorated Unit in US History

📍 Vosges Mountains, France · 1944
Pacific

The Ghost Fleet Truk Lagoon — Japan's Pearl Harbor

📍 Truk Lagoon, Chuuk · 1944
Pacific

The Manila Bay Ghost Ships — The Sinking of the Arisan Maru

📍 South China Sea · 1944
Odd Stories

The Balloon Bombs That Crossed the Pacific

📍 Bly, Oregon / Pacific · 1944
Pacific

The Arisan Maru - Worst Single POW Loss

📍 South China Sea · 1944
Pacific

Operation Hailstone Destroyed Truk Lagoon

📍 Truk Lagoon, Micronesia · 1944
Odd Stories

Japan Launched 9000 Balloon Bombs Across the Pacific

📍 Bly, Oregon · 1944
Odd Stories

Douglas MacArthur and the Masonic Connection

📍 Philippines / Japan · 1945
Heroes

Desmond Doss: The Combat Medic Who Refused to Carry a Gun

📍 Okinawa, Japan · 1945
Pacific

The Battle of the Rice Barges: A Naval Battle in a River

📍 Luzon, Philippines · 1945
Pacific

Hiroo Onoda: The Soldier Who Fought Until 1974

📍 Lubang Island, Philippines · 1974
Pacific

Hiroo Onoda — The Soldier Who Fought Until 1974

📍 Lubang Island, Philippines · 1974
Asian Theater

Last Japanese Holdout Found in 1974

📍 Morotai Island, Indonesia · 1974

Stories (1)

medical

The Nurse Who Stayed Behind at Pearl Harbor