Funeral held for Harry Jerele, Chicago-area WWII soldier who died in POW camp, after remains ID'd
His remains were accounted for last December when military scientists used DNA analysis and historical records to officially ...
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Remains of Merrill’s Marauder killed and missing from World War II identified
The remains of U.S. Army 1st Lt. Herman J. Sundstad, who fought in Burma during World War II as a member of the famed Merrill ...
Visits to World War II, Vietnam memorials highlight Day 2 of Honor Flight #50
Veterans on Kern County Honor Flight #50 got to visit memorials built in their honor. They spent Wednesday visiting the Vietnam Memorial and the World War II ...
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Decades After D-Day, Family of Black WWII Combat Medic Receives His Medal of Heroism
In an era of intense racial discrimination, not a single one of the 1.2 million Black Americans who served in the military ...
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Black WWII combat medic honored 80 years after D-Day
Waverly B. Woodson Jr., who was part of the only African American combat unit involved in the D-Day invasion during World War ...
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World War II veterans revisit Rockland's Camp Shanks, and battles fought in France, Germany
The members of the 65th were among more than 1.3 million who passed through Camp Shanks on their way to fight in Europe in World War II.
Black WWII Veteran Who Helped Save 200 Lives Finally Honored After Decades-Long Campaign by His Family
"My father, if he could have been here today, would have been humbled," Army Cpl. Waverly Woodson Jr.'s son, Steve, said ...
Impeachment witness says it’s ‘embarrassing’ that Trump only just found out about WWII and Napoleon
Retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and Trump impeachment witness Alexander Vindman mocked the former president on Thursday ...
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The Firearm War Trophies Of World War II
A tremendous number of firearms were obtained by American GIs in every theater of World War II, despite discouragement from U.S. Army command.