04 February 2025 DPAA Conducts Honorable Carry Ceremony from Philippine Mission On 28 January, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency conducted an honorable carry ceremony to honor service members from World War II at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam...
19 November 2024 Hawaii’s ‘Rosie the Riveter’ dies on Maui at age 98 Lucille “Cille” MacDonald, a Maui resident who was recognized by Congress for her work building ships during World War II and escaped the 2023 Lahaina fire, died Friday just weeks short of what would have been her 99th birthday...
21 October 2024 1st Cavalry Division Commemorates 80 Years Since the Leyte Landing Brig. Gen. Robert G. Born, deputy commanding general of maneuver for the 1st Cavalry Division, attended the 80th anniversary of the Leyte Landing celebration in Palo, Leyte, Philippines, on Oct. 20, 2024...
11 December 2015 Corporal Tibor Rubin, Medal of Honor Recipient, Dies at 86 WASHINGTON -- Holocaust survivor, Korean War hero and Medal of Honor recipient Tibor Rubin died Dec. 5 of natural causes. The Garden Grove, California, resident was 86 years old when he passed.Rubin, born in Pásztó, Hungary, in 1929, found himself in the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, at...
13 November 2015 Tarawa Marine Returns Home 72 Years After the Battle HONOLULU - Marines from U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific and the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency performed a dignified transfer of remains, Nov. 12, 2015, for Cpl. Roger K. Nielson, a Marine killed during the WWII Battle of Tarawa.The Battle of Tarawa took place Nov. 20 1943 on the small island...
08 July 2014 French honor Japanese-Americans' efforts during World War II Hiroo Endo offered a concise synopsis of World War II on Wednesday afternoon.“I lost some cousins. I lost some friends,” he said in a voice made frail by his 91 years. “That’s what war is about. You kill them or they kill you.”Endo and five other Japanese-American veterans of the Army’s famed 442nd...