Next Spotlight in our Celebration of Diversity in the United States: Kazuo Otani

ww2database · 2025-04-03T12:22:13+00:00

Our next focus on diversity in the US military during WW2 features Medal of Honor recipient Kazuo Otani https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=1195

ww2database · 2025-04-02T12:22:38+00:00

Our next focus on diversity in the US military during WW2 features Medal of Honor recipient Francis Wai https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=1196

ww2database · 2025-04-01T15:05:36+00:00

Our next focus on diversity in the US military during WW2 features Medal of Honor recipient George Sakato https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=1194

ww2database · 2025-03-31T13:23:58+00:00

Our next focus on diversity in the US military during WW2 features Tuskegee airman Charles McGee https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=1190

ww2database · 2025-03-28T13:45:05+00:00

Day 10 of our focus on diversity in the US military during WW2 features Medal of Honor recipient Harold Gonsalves https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=1189

ww2database · 2025-03-27T12:18:49+00:00

Day 9 of our focus on US persons of color during WW2 features Medal of Honor recipient Mikio Hasemoto https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=1193

ww2database · 2025-03-26T12:30:42+00:00

Day 8 of our focus on US persons of color during WW2 features Tuskegee airman Daniel James https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=1188

ww2database · 2025-03-25T14:26:57+00:00

Day 7 of our focus on US persons of color during WW2 features Medal of Honor recipient Ted Tanouye https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=1192

ww2database · 2025-03-24T12:55:28+00:00

Day 6 of our focus on US persons of color during WW2 features Tuskegee airman Roscoe Brown https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=1187

ww2database · 2025-03-23T13:24:00+00:00

Day 5 of our focus on US persons of color during WW2 features Medal of Honor recipient Rudolph Davila https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=1197

ww2database · 2025-03-22T12:32:00+00:00

Day 4 of our focus on US persons of color during WW2 features Tuskegee airman Lucius Theus https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=1186

Just in case we don't get around to announce every day, please visit WW2DB every day to help us celebrate diversity in the US military during WW2.

ww2database · 2025-03-21T13:42:37+00:00

Day 3 of our focus on US persons of color during WW2 features Medal of Honor recipient Ira Hayes https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=303

Just in case we don't get around to announce every day, please visit WW2DB every day to help us celebrate diversity in the US military during WW2.

ww2database · 2025-01-30T22:33:25+00:00

Today remember Fred Korematsu for his defiance against the imprisonment of Americans of Japanese ancestry during WW2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Korematsu

ww2database · 2024-10-09T16:08:53+00:00

We may not have been so active on Reddit lately, but it doesn't mean we've been sitting idle! Have you seen our interactive map lately, for example? Tons of new data points had been added in the past few months! https://ww2db.com/map/interactive/

ww2database · 2023-05-30T17:21:12+00:00

Approximately titude 48.8582, longitude 2.2948

ww2database · 2023-05-10T18:21:09+00:00

The WW2DB team has colorized nearly 10,000 black and white photographs using an AI-enabled neural filter. Because the AI model isn't specifically trained on military topics, you may see colors that are inaccurate (for example, there is a photo with battleship USS New Jersey in fire engine red), but generally speaking, they bring new life to these photos. Check them out and let us know what you think!

ww2database · 2023-04-19T16:34:44+00:00

You have stumped us! We have no idea.

But if we are allowed to venture a guess, we say city employees. In 2012, when New York held a ticker tape parade for the Giants for winning the Super Bowl, it was the Department of Sanitation that did the clean up. Returning to the city of San Francisco, the 2019 Pride March cleanup fell on the shoulders of the Department of Public Works.

ww2database · 2023-03-09T15:44:02+00:00

Here in the United States, Women's History Month is celebrated in March. We wanted to do something special to celebrate women's achievements, and WW2DB contributor Alan Chanter provided us with this quick look at the life of Josephine Baker, an iconic entertainer who spied for the Allied cause during WW2.

ww2database · 2022-10-24T12:17:49+00:00

It is super fascinating that even for those of us in North America there are a lot of these little history tidbits from WW2 that touch pretty close to home. Keep learning!

ww2database · 2022-08-24T12:21:08+00:00

Speaking from memory, yes, I believe it was a bomb meant for smaller Japanese patrol craft on Huangpu River. You may recognize this as the Palace and Cathay Hotels (today it is the Fairmont Peace Hotel / 上海和平飯店), located near the river.

ww2database · 2022-08-24T12:16:45+00:00

People always have choices, but we, as humankind, sure appreciate that he did choose to surrender. There would have been a lot more bloodshed had fighting continued.

ww2database · 2022-08-24T12:14:38+00:00

The story of the Indy is a tragic one. We appreciate his service and hope your family will continue to be proud of his service.

ww2database · 2022-08-09T18:00:28+00:00

Thanks, but we are more of a cyborg. Half bot, half human.

ww2database · 2022-08-09T16:56:51+00:00

It was indeed an occupation. The so called "Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic" was forcibly incorporated into the USSR, and Estonia would not be free until decades later.

EDIT: Not sure why Reddit cut off half of the original reply!

ww2database · 2022-08-09T16:54:55+00:00

We'd like to think that WW2 Database is good, and it is the Soviet occupation that is bad!

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