#How an RCAF airman’s watch solved a 50-year mystery

#How an RCAF airman’s watch solved a 50-year mystery

“#How an RCAF airman’s watch solved a 50-year mystery” The discovery of F.O. William Joseph Kyle’s watch led Veterans Affairs Canada—and his family—to where his plane went down during the Second World War In November 1990, a hunter found a watch while trekking through the jungle in northwest Burma (now Myanmar). It was weathered, as…

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#Jewish Museum exhibit shows art looted during World War II

#Jewish Museum exhibit shows art looted during World War II

“#Jewish Museum exhibit shows art looted during World War II” Matisses, Picassos, Cézannes. Nazi forces plundered scores of artistic treasures — and took an unfathomable number of human lives — during World War II and the Holocaust.  Works of art went on improbable paths before, during and after the war, withstanding harrowing conditions. They wound…

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#Japanese defense chief visits contentious war shrine

#Japanese defense chief visits contentious war shrine

“#Japanese defense chief visits contentious war shrine” TOKYO — Japan’s defense minister on Friday visited a Tokyo shrine viewed by China and both Koreas as a symbol of Japanese wartime aggression to pray for the war dead just days before the nation marks the 76th anniversary of its World War II defeat. Victims of Japanese…

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#Anger as French protesters compare vaccines to Nazi horrors

#Anger as French protesters compare vaccines to Nazi horrors

“#Anger as French protesters compare vaccines to Nazi horrors” PARIS — A French Holocaust survivor has denounced anti-vaccination protesters comparing themselves to Jews who were persecuted by Nazi Germany during World War II. French officials and anti-racism groups joined the 94-year-old in expressing indignation. As more than 100,000 people marched around France against government vaccine rules on…

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