Новости за 05.08.2015

The U.S. government on Wednesday announced a $5 million reward for information leading to the recapture of one of the world's most wanted drug kingpins, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman of Mexico.

Sixteen Colombian police officers died Tuesday when their Black Hawk helicopter crashed while taking part in a manhunt for the nation's most-wanted drug trafficker, the second deadly air accident affecting the U.S.-trained military in less than a week.

President Barack Obama delivered a blistering defense of his landmark deal to curb Iran’s nuclear weapons threat Wednesday, issuing a stinging rebuttal to critiques by Israeli leaders and Republicans in Congress, and warning bluntly that rejecting the deal would lead to war.

What better place, several officials said Tuesday afternoon, to celebrate the 225th anniversary of the Coast Guard than in this city, home to several Coast Guard commands, the Coast Guard Academy and the planned National Coast Guard Museum.

Navy veteran Norman Hall walked out to collect the mail one day, then turned to the traffic and waved. The extraordinary happened: The world waved back.

The program seeks donations to pay for gym memberships for vets. In addition, Lift For The 22 helps connect vets to each other.

For those who have been fighting for health benefits for military personnel and others who have developed illnesses from exposure to contaminated water at Camp Lejeune, this week’s announcement by the Department of Veterans Affairs is a positive shift in the “right” direction.

Federal officials remain reluctant to clearly link Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez's actions on July 16 to his Islamic faith, and after one official in the Obama administration explained why, his statements created a firestorm among conservatives.

The Army intends to open all but one field artillery military occupation specialty – 13F fire support specialist – to female soldiers, a move that would cover 21,000 previously male-only jobs, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday.

The U.S. has conducted its first strike on an Islamic State target by a drone flown out of a Turkish air base, the Pentagon said Wednesday. The strike Tuesday occurred after the U.S. began flying armed, unmanned aerial systems out of Incirlik Air Base over the weekend.

Investigators are questioning a person of interest after shots were reportedly fired a second consecutive day near a military facility in southern Mississippi, officials said Wednesday. There were no reported injuries.

When Raymond Biel was in flight school in the early 1940s, he thought he might be a co-pilot in a fighter. Instead, he was chosen to fly the B-29 Superfortress, a new bomber for the U.S. military.

From those who continued to fight after surrender to when Brazil declared war — here are three things that have drawn less attention than the epic struggles of Normandy, Stalingrad and the islands of the Pacific.

In the United States, generations were taught that Japan would never have surrendered so quickly without use of the atomic bomb and that victory would have required a bloody invasion of the Japanese mainland, costing hundreds of thousands of lives. Japanese students were generally taught a very different narrative.

Toshi Tokunaga Cooper and her coworkers listened on the radio as Emperor Hirohito announced Japan’s surrender to the Allies on Aug. 15, 1945. It was the first time the Japanese public had heard his voice, and the news was devastating.

More than a half century before al-Qaida and the Islamic State, the kamikazes were the suicide bombers of their time. Like many of them, Ryoji Uehara died in the Battle of Okinawa. Unlike most of his comrades, Uehara is widely known for the letters he left behind, revealing a poet and an intellectual, not a mindless drone.

President Harry Truman’s decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki came with regret over the loss of life, but without hesitation.

News of the deaths was not initially released, and even their families didn’t know how they died for decades. But the Shigeaki Mori, a local historian, pieced together what happened. Finally, he was about to meet one of the relatives.

Suddenly, a bright light flashed. Instantly, I squatted down and covered my face with my hands. We had been instructed to do so to protect ourselves when we were bombed. Otherwise, we were told that our eardrums would burst and eyeballs would pop out.

To help ensure that future generations never forget the horrors of nuclear war, a Japanese photography education organization is hosting a month-long photo exhibition with images that document the death and damage. These rare images survived censorship laws and were collected over several years for the 70th anniversary of the bombing.

When Raymond Biel was in flight school in the early 1940s, he thought he might be a co-pilot in a fighter. Instead, he was chosen to fly the B-29 Superfortress, a new bomber for the U.S. military.

A day after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. declared war on Japan, starting a nearly four-year campaign in places most Americans had never heard of. The conflict would end in stunning fashion, with the only two atomic bombs ever used in war. But in the early months of the conflict, the outlook for the Allies looked bleak.

The Battle of Okinawa is one of the bloodiest and most tragic chapters of the Pacific war, claiming the lives of 110,000 Japanese troops, 140,000 Okinawan civilians and 12,520 American servicemembers. It’s etched in the memory of every survivor. Though their numbers are dwindling — most are in their early 90s — they all have stories to tell, including the moral quandaries they faced.

On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, the most audacious and complex enterprise undertaken by the American amphibious forces — eclipsed only by Normandy — took place in the Pacific.

From Iwo Jima to Okinawa, and onto Japan's final surrender aboard the USS Missouri, Stars and Stripes invites you to follow along with this interactive timeline.