The Associated Press on MSN4d
War heroes, a bomber and military firsts among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon’s DEI purge
Photos seemed to be flagged for removal simply because their file included the word ”gay,” including an image of the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, ...
MassLive6d
Military DEI photo purge set to erase Medal of Honor recipient
which during World War II dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Additionally, several photos of an Army Corps of Engineers project in California were marked for deletion, apparently ...
National Geographic news6d
Scenes from the Japanese Internment Resonate Today
A unit made up almost entirely of Japanese Americans, the 100th Infantry ... California. Torazo Sakawye would die at 67 in the incarceration camp; an uncle of Walter Sakawye was killed in World ...
The National Interest6d
The M1301 Infantry Squad Vehicle Keeps Bringing Troops to the Fight
The Infantry Squad Vehicle hasn’t been used in combat yet, but it has been field-proven in real-world conditions. In the deadly, rough-and-tumble world of ground combat, much fame has been ...
ABC76d
Family, friends, colleagues pay tribute to dedicated veteran who fought in 3 different wars
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- Loved ones remembered a one-of-a-kind veteran at a special celebration of life ceremony in Newport Beach. Maj. Billy Hall fought in three different wars, and years ...
Los Angeles Times2d
Former Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming, who bridged partisan gaps with his quick wit, dies at 93
With his boyhood friend Norman Mineta, he promoted awareness of the incarceration of people of Japanese ancestry in World War II. CHEYENNE ... he served in the Fifth Infantry Division and the ...
Red Bluff Daily News1d
Tehama County’s WWII Aces: Part I | Tales of Tehama
On the corner of Oak and Washington Streets sits a brick marker that is easy to overlook. Dedicated in March 2001, it honors ...
Santa Maria Times6d
Study tells California legislators to declare war on red tape — but will they? | Dan Walters
CALmatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California's state Capitol works and why it matters. Dan Walters has been a journalist for nearly 60 years ...
Stars and Stripes3d
Iwo Jima veteran recalls ‘terrible, terrible’ battle 80 years after WWII
His 10 days at Iwo Jima were a “terrible, terrible experience with dead people everywhere,” he told Stars and Stripes in a ...
Southern Maryland News Online5d
Pair of World War II vets honored as they turn 100
Sunday’s salute to a pair of local men who served in World War II and are reaching the age of 100 was as much a celebration of citizenship as it ...
Ventura County Star5d
Walters: Study tells California legislators to declare war on red tape — but will they?
The Bay Bridge saga exemplifies how California, which once taught the world how to build things, lost its mojo by erecting so many political, legal and financial hurdles to getting things done.
YourValley.net5d
102-year-old WWII pilot trainer treated to honor flight at Mesa airport
Commemorative Air Force Museum — Airbase Arizona The mission of the organization is education, such that generations of ...