SACRAMENTO — Les Ouchida was born an American just outside California's capital city, but his citizenship mattered little after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States declared war. Based solely on their Japanese ancestry, the 5-year-old and his family were taken from their home in 1942 and imprisoned far...
AP Exclusive: Sierra Skeleton ID'd as 'Ghost of Manzanar'
LOS ANGELES — A skeleton found by hikers this fall near California's second-highest peak was identified Friday as a Japanese American artist who had left the Manzanar internment camp to paint in the mountains in the waning days of World War II. The Inyo County sheriff used DNA to identify...
Christmas From Heaven: The Candy Bomber Story
Tom Brokaw tells the story of Gail Halvorsen, the Air Force pilot who earned the nickname "The Candy Bomber" for his humanitarian efforts during the Berlin Airlift. Listen to this article: The video below is from the 2012 Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert. With the Orchestra at Temple Square and...
'Nuts!' US Troops Thwarted Hitler's Last Gamble 75 Years Ago
BASTOGNE, Belgium — Pvt. Arthur Jacobson was seeking cover in the snow behind a tank moving slowly through the wooded hills of Belgium's Ardennes, German bullets whizzing by. That was when he lost his best friend and Bazooka team partner to sniper fire. “They couldn't hit him, he shouted," Jacobson...
ValleyPBS will Air History of Native Americans in the US Military
Before Chuck Boers joined the U.S. Army, the Lipan Apache member was given his family's eagle feathers. The feathers had been carried by his great-great-great-grandfather on his rifle when he was an Apache scout. They also were carried by relatives who fought in World War I, World War II, Korea...
Skeleton May be Japanese American From Internment Camp
SANTA MONICA — In the closing days of World War II, a Japanese American set out with other men from the infamous internment camp at Manzanar on a trip to the mountains, where he went off on his own to paint a watercolor and got caught in a freak summer snowstorm....
Underwater Robots Find Sunken Warship From WWII Battle of Midway
MIDWAY ATOLL, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands — Deep-sea explorers scouring the world's oceans for sunken World War II ships are focusing in on debris fields deep in the Pacific, in an area where one of the most decisive battles of the time took place. Hundreds of miles off Midway Atoll, nearly...
World War II ‘Screaming Eagle' Veteran Henry Ochsner Dies at 96
CALIFORNIA CITY — World War II veteran Henry Ochsner, who landed on the beach at Normandy on D-Day and later received the French government's highest honor for his service, has died. He was 96. Family friend Dennis Anderson says Ochsner died Saturday at his home in California City of complications...
Dorothy Olsen, Pilot in World War II, Dies at 103
TACOMA, Wash. — Dorothy Eleanor Olsen, a member of a group of civilian volunteers who flew planes across the country during World War II, has died. She was 103. The News Tribune reports that Olsen died July 23 in University Place, Washington. She flew about 60 missions as part of the 6th...
Dorothy Olsen, Pilot in World War II, Dies at 103
TACOMA, Wash. — Dorothy Eleanor Olsen, a member of a group of civilian volunteers who flew planes across the country during World War II, has died. She was 103. The News Tribune reports that Olsen died July 23 in University Place, Washington. She flew about 60 missions as part of the 6th...