Today in Chicago History: World War II hero Edward ‘Butch’ O’Hare — the airport’s namesake — downs Japanese bombers

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 20, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important ...
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When machine guns destroyed Japan’s tanks in World War II

In June 1944 during World War II, Japanese tanks charged Marine lines on Saipan believing their armor would protect them. The ...
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Japanese Americans remember unjust imprisonments during WWII

The Mile High Japanese American Citizens League is hosting a Day of Remembrance event at History Colorado on Sunday.

Carrington community preserves legacy of Japanese American businessman imprisoned during WWII

Construction of a new Rainbow Gardens and Interpretive Center will begin this spring.

An unsung World War II hero: Emma Buckmaster a legend in Bakersfield’s Japanese-American community

Emma Buckmaster was an emotional and psychological lifeline.
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American MIA group and Filipino Muslim government unite to bring home World War II servicemen

They will search for remains of four U.S. soldiers, including a general who became a hero after his refusal to obey Japanese ...

San Francisco exhibit highlights service of Japanese American soldiers in WWII

In the days and months following the attack on Pearl Harbor, drawing the U.S. into World War II, thousands of people of Japanese descent in the U.S. were forced from their homes and into incarceration ...

How this Depression-era mural links Lee’s Summit to Japan, WWII

Artist Ted Gilien, who created a large mural that was hung in Lee’s Summit’s post office in 1940, went on to document World ...

Held captive in their own country during World War II, Japanese Americans used nature to cope with their unjustified imprisonment

Incarcerated in rough barracks surrounded by barbed wire and armed soldiers, Japanese Americans made functional and beautiful ...
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DE JA VU: ICE DETENTION CENTERS AND WWII AMERICAN CONCENTRATION CAMPS

A news article from Reuters, February 2, headlines, “ICE to Spend $38.3 Billion On Detention Centers Across the US.” $38 ...
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For survivors of Japanese American prison camps, Trump’s deportation campaign has disturbing echoes

He was never arrested or charged with a crime. But like over 120,000 other Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans, he and his family were rounded up and sent on buses to prison camps in the West ...
Northwest Asian Weekly

Tamiko Nimura reflects on her family’s history of incarceration in the U.S. during WWII

The incarceration of over 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II forever altered life for Japanese Americans and their families.