Microsoft co-founder claims to have located wreckage of Japanese WWII battleship

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen says that he and a team of researchers have located the wreckage of the Japanese battleship Musashi, more than 70 years after it was sunk during World War II.

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German World War II panzer ace dies at 92

Otto Carius, a World War II German panzer ace credited with destroying more than 150 enemy tanks, mostly on the Eastern Front, has died at 92.

Carius died at home in western Germany Jan. 24 after a short illness, according to a statement Friday on the website of the Tiger Pharmacy, which he founded in 1956. Read the rest at Fox news.

Secret underground Nazi WMD factory

Fox new is reporting the uncovering of a secret underground Nazi WMD Factory:

Suspiciously high radiation levels around the Austrian town of St. Georgen an der Gusen had long fueled theories that there was a buried bunker nearby where Nazis had tested nuclear weapons during WWII. Read the full story..

German court says a 93-year-old man will stand trial

The AP is reporting the German court says a 93-year-old man charged with 300,000 counts of accessory to murder for serving as an SS guard at the Nazis' Auschwitz death camp will go on trial early next year.

The Lueneburg state court said Tuesday its review of the prosecution's case against Oskar Groening determined there was enough evidence to proceed with the trial. The starting date has not been announced.

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Wreck of WWII German U-boat found off North Carolina

(CNN) -- A World War II German U-boat, sunk during the Battle of the Atlantic more than 72 years ago, has been discovered off the coast of North Carolina, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Tuesday.
The German sub, the U-576, was found at the bottom of the Atlantic 30 miles off Cape Hatteras and just 240 yards from an American merchant ship, the merchant tanker Bluefields, which was part of a 24-ship U.S. convoy heading from Virginia to Key West, Florida, on July 14, 1942.

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Remains of NY soldier missing since World War II identified

Fox news is reporting that a New York soldier who was reported missing in the Pacific theater of World War II 70 years ago will be buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery after his remains were identified using DNA tests.

Army Pfc. Bernard Gavrin, of Brooklyn, was reported missing on July 7, 1944 while fighting on Saipan, in the Northern Mariana Islands of the western Pacific Ocean. His regiment had come under attack from the Japanese and suffered many casualties.

Gavrin was declared dead the following year, and his remains were deemed unrecoverable in 1948. However, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported that excavations by a Japanese non-profit group last August had uncovered Gavrin's dog tags, as well as graves containing the remains of several American troops. Continue to read the rest of the article here.

Last crewman of U.S. plane that dropped A-bomb on Hiroshima dies at 93

(CNN) -- Nearly 69 years ago, Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk navigated a U.S. B-29 Superfortress called the Enola Gay over Hiroshima, Japan, on a sunny August day. Once over its target, the Enola Gay unloaded the first atomic bomb dropped in war.
A single bomb blast killed some 140,000 people and helped end World War II -- and pushed the world suddenly into the nuclear era.
On Monday, Van Kirk died of natural causes at the Park Springs retirement community in Stone Mountain, Georgia, according to his eldest daughter Vicki Triplett.

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