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3 days ago · The Nakajima Ki-115a Tsurugi was built as a cheap single-use on-way suicide aircraft to strike American warships. Japan built the Nakajima Ki-115 Tsurugi for kamikaze attacks with cheap materials and massive bombs. The Tsurugi was intended to be a single-use disposable aircraft and was unarmed, easy target. Kamikaze attacks were a last-ditch ...
1 day ago · CHICAGO (CBS) -- It's a story generations in the making. It began back in World War II when a Japanese diplomat risked everything to save the lives of thousands of Jewish people. Fast forward to ...
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2 days ago · The Operation Meetinghouse firebombing raid on Tokyo alone killed 100,000 civilians on the night of March 9–10, 1945, causing more civilian death and destruction than either of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
2 days ago · It encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northeast Europe ( Baltics ), and Southeast Europe ( Balkans ), and lasted from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945. Of the estimated 70–85 million deaths attributed to World War II, around 30 million occurred on the Eastern Front, including 9 million children. [2] [3] The Eastern Front was decisive in ...
3 days ago · Most of the 1.5 million Japanese who had been left in Manchukuo at the end of World War II were sent back to their homeland in 1946–1948 by U.S. Navy ships in the operation now known as the Japanese repatriation from Huludao. Politics Propaganda poster promoting harmony between Japanese, Han, and Manchu peoples.
4 days ago · Not until 1995 did Vietnam release its official estimate of war dead: as many as 2 million civilians on both sides and some 1.1 million North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fighters. The U.S. military has estimated that between 200,000 and 250,000 South Vietnamese soldiers died in the war.
6 days ago · The foreign secretary was replying to James Cleverly's post on X in which he said the Home Office expelled a Russian defence attache as part of a series of measures against the country.
