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This is a great story, illustrating how information on the Internet was used to solve a mystery. Following is a teaser. You’ve got to read the whole thing in the The News-Enterprise. ELIZABETHTOWN [Kentucky] — The story of World War Continue reading Life & Death on the Battlefield With Mystery Solved on the Internet
Book Review: Ploughshares into Swords: How Civilians and Caltech Helped Win WWII, by Thomas S. Fiske with Lannea G. Melzian. I tend to put myself to sleep every night with a book, and the last few days, Tom Fiske’s new Continue reading Ploughshares into Swords: Civilians and Caltech Joined Forces to Win WWII
To commemorate the 4,669 Americans of Japanese ancestry detained at the Merced County Fairgrounds from April to September 1942, the Merced Assembly Center Commemorative Committee (MACCC) is working on erecting a monument that is scheduled to unveil on Feb. 20, Continue reading Monument to be Erected Commemorating the Merced Assembly Center
They say that it’s been 65 years ago today since American and allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy. I wasn’t born until six years later, so I have no personal memories of the time period. No close family members Continue reading Thoughts on the 65th Anniversary of D-Day
Any chance you’re going to Hawaii in June? If so, then check out “Dark Clouds over Paradise: the Hawaii Internees Story,” an exhibit by the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii, at the Hawaii State Library from June 5 to 26, Continue reading Dark Clouds over Paradise: the Hawaii Internees Story
This blog is not terribly genealogical, but I’m pleased to be able to post it. Tomorrow (April 18), Seattle University’s School of Law will launch a new center called the “Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality.” The purpose Continue reading Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality to be Launched at Seattle University
My readers know that I have strong feelings about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. I’ve written on the subject many times in my 59 years… Our family had friends who got caught up in all this, Continue reading Minidoka Internment Camp Tours & Memorial June 26-28, 2009
A carbon copy of the list compiled by the German industrialist Oskar Schindler has been found by a researcher at the New South Wales Library in Sydney, Australia. Made famous by Steven Spielberg’s 1993 movie of the same name, Oscar Continue reading Rare Carbon Copy of Schindler’s List is Found
Having been a Washington State native and resident for 40 years, I’ve written numerous times about the Executive Order 9066, which imprisoned 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry (most American citizens) during World War II. We had family friends that got Continue reading Memorial Groundbreaking for Japanese Americans Interned from Bainbridge Island
More than 60 years after he and his brother returned from fighting in the Philippines, the thoughts of New York Mills resident Charles Stevens once again have turned to the South Pacific. Stevens, 96, learned earlier this month that dog Continue reading WWII Dog Tags Found on a Phillipines Beach
Test pile drivings will begin later this month at the USS Arizona Memorial Visitor Center site at Pearl Harbor as work begins on a $58 million program to rebuild the tourist destination’s facilities. Watts Constructors LLC was awarded a $32.6 Continue reading USS Arizona Memorial Visitor Center to be Demolished and Rebuilt
The U.S.S. Utah sank in the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The ship and its crew are now being remembered and honored at a program marking the 100th anniversary of the laying of the battleship’s keel. Following Continue reading Remembering the U.S.S. Utah
Book Review: Daddy’s War: Greek American Stories Irene Kacandes tells the story of her family’s Second World War experiences – a story drawn from interviews with her siblings as well as her father in his old age. The parental interviews Continue reading Daddy’s War: Greek American Stories
Bill Heron, of Welland, Ontario has a family whose members served in the Crimean War, the Boer War, the First World War and Second World War. So Bill set off to write the story of 431 RCAF (Iroquois) Squadron, with Continue reading A Yorkshire Squadron: History of 431 RCAF Squadron
There’s a good article in the Seattle P-I today about Fumiko Hayashida, who in March of 1942, was loaded up along with 225 other folks from Bainbridge Island, Washington – and transported to the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California. Continue reading Japanese-American Fumiko Hayashida says, “There’s No Use Crying About the Past”