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Megan Smolenyak

Welcome home Cpl. Bruce Hamilton Penny. Honored to have researched your family. #hero #WWII (2016)

P.S. This is the language they used in articles of the day.
P.P.S. Cpl. Penny is now the 210th soldier I've researched who's been identified and brought home to his family. 😊

The Japan Times

Norwegian Nobel Committee chair Jorgen Frydnes has visited Hiroshima and called for attention to be paid to the voices of hibakusha, who survived the 1945 atomic bombing of the western Japan city. japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/ #japan #wwii #hiroshima #atomicbombings #nobelprize

The Japan Times · Nobel committee chair visits HiroshimaBy The Japan Times
The Japan Times

As the anniversary of the war's end comes into view, an 87-year-old woman from Chiba is sharing her memories of U.S. war raids in the closing months of WWII, noting that she's fortunate to have survived. japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/ #japan #history #wwii #chiba #usmilitary

The Japan Times · Woman recounts deadly U.S. bombings of Chiba 80 years agoBy The Japan Times
Ceryl

Antonina Grégoire #Belgian business engineer, feminist, communist. member of International Red Aid, 1938 tried to help political prisoners incarcerated in Moabit prison Berlin. #WWII ran intelligence gathering section for Belgian Partisans Armés resistance. Husband betrayed & died in concentration camp. Involved in post war politics before being expelled from Communist Party because of her "bourgeois origins". d. #OTD 21 Jul 1952 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonina @histodons @CarveHerName #Wikipedia

Lorna Peel

Kate Sheridan leaves Ireland for London seeking freedom and work. But war looms and danger lurks. She meets Charlie Butler, a dashing pilot who charms her, but can she trust him? Will their love survive their families' objections and the trials of war?

Amazon - myBook.to/intotheunknown
Other Retailers - books2read.com/IntoTheUnknown

#IntoTheUnknownByLornaPeel #BooksByLornaPeel #WW2Fiction #WWII #WW2 #HistoricalRomance #HistoricalFiction #KindleUnlimited #Paperback #Bookstodon @bookstodon

The Japan Times

A team from the U.S. nonprofit Ocean Exploration Trust has located the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Teruzuki on the deep seabed off the Solomon Islands as the 80th anniversary of the war's end approaches. japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/ #japan #society #us #wwii #solomonislands

The Japan Times · Sunken WWII Japanese warship Teruzuki found off Solomon IslandsBy The Japan Times
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