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A World War II pilot who was originally buried overseas as an unknown soldier has been identified by The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) as U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. John F. Minogue, 24, of Richfield, California.

What if the Allies didn’t win World War Two? For the United States and Europe, it would’ve been a disaster. “Nazi forces are not seeking modifications to colonial maps or minor European boundaries,” said President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D-New York). “They seek the destruction of all elective systems of government on every continent, including our own. They seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers who seize power by force.”

Today, Los Alamos is a town in New Mexico that has a population of about 13,200 people as of 2020 according to the census. Right now, Los Alamos is pretty much just like any other small town in the state with very little difference between it and any other settlement you can find in the remote parts of New Mexico. However, this town has a very interesting and somewhat dark history associated with the Second World War and the Cold War. The United States of America was the first nation to unlock the secret of atomic energy to produce a weapon of mass destruction known as the atomic bomb. Los Alamos was a secret town that contained a classified research laboratory. This lab was part of the Manhattan Project: a secret scientific project primarily created to develop an atomic bomb to help end the World War with a final bang. The secret town was built to house thousands of scientists, engineers, and the families of these various people. The whole point of the secrecy was to keep United States nuclear scientists and whatever work they were a part of "away from prying eyes and ears".

An extraordinary story: when letters between World War II lovers were discovered in the attic by their son after their death, they took the world by storm. Chris Barker was a soldier in Libya, and Bessie Moore was a Morse code interpreter in London. This is an incredible interview with their son, Peter. Photos and video with the kind permission of Peter Barker and Letters Live. Sources: Letters Live, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/LettersLive">https://www.youtube.com/c/LettersLive</a> | Joo Yeon Sir, My Dear Bessie <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWPbpk14d40">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWPbpk14d40</a> | My Dear Bessie book edited by Simon Garfield, <a href="https://www.simongarfield.com/books/my-dear-bessie">https://www.simongarfield.com/books/my-dear-bessie</a>/ | Some of the photographic content is 'licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license'