Today's WW2 News

CNN: Belgium: Bastogne recalls Battle of the Bulge, November 22, 2004

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Seattle's Japantown remembered; War disrupted vital community, November 22, 2004

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U.S. Department of Defense: U.S.-India Hold Talks on WWII Missing, November 23, 2004

 

Thanks a lot for the links and info, DWD. Particularly loved the Parading Marines.

 

Somerset at War exhibition here

 

Seattle Times: Arthur Susumi, compassionate, honored veteran dies at 81, January 09, 2005

The Seattle Times published a notice regarding the death of Arthur Susumi, a former prisoner at the Minidoka Internment Camp, a decorated veteran of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and a veteran of the Battle of the Lost Battalion in Bruyeres, France.

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Thanks for this post DWD. Sorry to see these gents go. Their story is an exceptional one.

I recently got a self publsihed book by a 36th Inf Div vet, who mentioned the lost battalion as well. Remains a story to be told.

 

Yahoo News: Funeral Planned for WWII Soldier, January 27, 2005

The remains of Private Odell Sharpe, a nineteen year old US soldier who is believed to have been killed in action in Belgium on Christmas Day 1944, were found by a group of Belgian civilians and will be laid to rest by his family within the next few days.

 

Thanks for this DWD! I agree with Otto's words very much. A great job these gents are doning. I have a story of them on my site as well. WIll add this too.

Thaks for sharing.

Regards,

Stevin

 

Council on Foreign Relations: Rethinking the Iwo Jima Myth , March 10, 2005

An interesting and somewhat political re-appraisal of Iwo Jima by military historian Max Boot.

 

Honolulu Star-Bulletin: Mid-Pacific students get firsthand history lesson; A Navajo code-talker shares his Iwo Jima experiences during a live Webcast, March 15, 2005

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Quad-City Times: Q-C man visits scene of ferocious World War II battle, March 14, 2005

 

Thanks for the Iwo Jima story Crapgame. I don't know if I agree with all it says. If Iwo Jima was not important then why would Japan waste 21,000 troops it could use elsewhere ? That is the thought I had when I finished the story. Of course hindsight is 20/20.

I just noticed we both joined the same year and month but you have exactly 1000 more posts than me.

 

I haven't made up my own mind regarding Max Boot's article but I did find it noteworthy that his source was an article by a Marine officer who teachs history at the Naval Academy.

 

The Salt Lake Tribune: Ernest Childers, Medal of Honor winner in WWII, dies at 87, March 25, 2005

U.S. Department of Defense: American Indian Heritage Month - Medal of Honor Recipients

U.S. National Archives & Records Administration: Pictures of Indians in the United States

 

Seattle Times: Fred Korematsu, 86, fought World War II internment, dies, March 31, 2005

The Presidential Medal of Freedom: <a href="http://www.medaloffreedom.com/FredKorematsu.htm" target="_blank">Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient
Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu</a>

 

http://reuters.myway.com/article/20050409/2005-04-09T130019Z_01_PEK199815_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-CHINA-JAPAN-DC.html

China Protesters Attack Japanese Targets


Apr 9, 9:00 AM (ET)

By Emma Graham-Harrison

BEIJING (Reuters) - Thousands of Chinese smashed windows and threw rocks at the Japanese embassy and ambassador's residence in Beijing on Saturday in a protest against Japan's wartime past and its bid for a U.N. Security Council seat.

Protesters pushed their way through a paramilitary police cordon to the gates of the Japanese ambassador's residence, throwing stones and water bottles and shouting "Japanese pig come out."

Some 500 paramilitary police holding plastic shields raced into the compound and barricaded the gates. Protesters threw stones and bricks at the residence, and shouted at police, "Chinese people shouldn't protect Japanese."

Anti-Japanese sentiment has been running high in China since Tuesday Japan when approved a textbook critics say whitewashes atrocities committed during World War II, and many Chinese feel the country has not owned up to its wartime aggression...

When will the Japanese Government finally realize that an apology or at the very least an acknowledgment of their brutal past will go a long way in helping their image?

 

San Diego Union-Tribune: Kalman Ferenczfalvi, who saved lives of Jews during the Holocaust, dead at 84, April 13, 2005

International Herald Tribune: Israel to honor German, March 30, 2005

Kalman Ferenczfalvi and Karl Plagge, two men who each singlehandedly saved hundreds of people from certain death, were in the news this past week.

 

VOA News: Koizumi Apologizes for Japan's Colonial Past, April 22, 2005