Several other YR-4Bs were used in rescues by U.S. forces in other areas before the war ended, but it was only in Burma that they were used in combat conditions. Harman Carter was awarded the ...

The son of a West Sussex veteran of World War Two has paid tribute to her after she died aged 100. Cicely Ball was among the ...

In the early days of World War II, the Japanese army invaded Burma (now Myanmar) and forced an end to British colonial rule there. Occupying Burma required troops and massive amounts of materiel ...

The remains of a soldier from Hartford who had been missing since World War II have been found and he will be honored for his ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Judith Par-Lwei was 10 when she and her family fled their home country of Burma. It was 2008. Hundreds of villages had been destroyed by Burmese military. Much of the population ...

The remains of Army Sgt. Frank Tedone, a Connecticut man who died along with his entire bomber crew in WWII, are to be buried ...

Track the progress of the Burma Campaign - from the rapid Japanese victories of 1941, to the desperate battles for the Indian towns of Kohima and Imphal. Then follow the course of the Allies as ...

After leaving Burma, Garza served time in China and Kolkata — formerly Calcutta — before returning to the United States. Garza, who also had two brothers fighting in World War II, was awarded ...