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 Lieutenant) January 06, 2015

Meet Karnig Thomasian, a World War 2 veteran who served in the Army Air Forces flying B-29 bombers in the Pacific theater. During one mission Thomasian's plane went down over Burma and he served 6 months - including his 21st Birthday - in a Japanese PoW camp.

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 HQ Batallón) December 08, 2014

Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Its mission is to develop and maintain an internationally recognized aviation museum on historic Ford Island that educates young and old alike, honors aviators and their support personnel who defended freedom in The...read more

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 HQ Batallón) December 08, 2014

Empire of the Sun (EotS) is a strategic level look at the entire War in the Pacific from the attack on Pearl Harbor until the surrender of Japan. Players are cast in the role of MacArthur, Yamamoto, Nimitz, and Mountbatten as you direct your forces across the breadth of the globe from India to...read more

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 HQ Batallón) November 26, 2014

The Lockheed P-38 Lightning was a World War II American fighter aircraft built by Lockheed. Developed to a United States Army Air Corps requirement, the P-38 had distinctive twin booms and a single, central nacelle containing the cockpit and armament. Named "fork-tailed devil" by the Luftwaffe ...read more

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This 1960 documentary presents the US military operations in the Pacific during World War 2 against the Japanese, from Pearl Harbor and loss of the Philippines to the B-29 bases constructed on Saipan (1941-1943).

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 Lieutenant) November 11, 2014

Description at the National Archives: 

  • Part 1: 8th AAF fighters strafe enemy planes in France. 
  • Part 2 (CB only): Shows "luxuries" at a 7th Army rest camp in France: beds, new clothes, games, skiing, dancing, etc. 
  • Part 2 (CB Part 3): General Montgomery, General W.H
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 Lieutenant) November 10, 2014

The I-400-class submarine Imperial Japanese Navy submarines were the largest submarines of World War II and remained the largest ever built until the construction of nuclear ballistic missile submarines in the 1960s. The IJN called this type of submarine Sentoku type submarine. The type name,...read more

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