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This We’ll Defend: 442nd veteran honored for ‘selfless sacrifice’ during WWII
Dr. Takashi Manago was a member of “Go For Broke,” a band of Japanese-American soldiers. He served with the 100th Battalion, ...
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‘Plush Troops’: The Pro-War Children’s Toys Taking Over Russia’s Online Marketplaces
In this strategy game, you lead a battalion aiming to liberate Ukraine from Nazi rule,” reads the description of Russia’s ...
Two World War II vets to attend Rails to Victory reenactments at South Elgin trolley museum
The guests of honor at this weekend’s Rails to Victory World War II reenactment and encampment at the Fox Valley Trolley Museum in South Elgin are two men who experienced the war themselves ...
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Our History: Remembering our World War I veterans
Remembering the fallen soldiers of Citrus County's Fourth of July in 1919. The story highlights the personal lives and ...
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Inside the Curious, and Dangerous, World of US Military Museums
The museum’s uncanny environment is the work of the Collings Foundation, a well-heeled nonprofit that is among the world’s ...
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Vicky Davis on Remembering World War II in Central Asia
On May 8, 1945, Nazi Germany formally surrendered, ending World War II in Europe ... in June 1941, men were called up from across the nation to boost the ranks of the Red Army.
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Did you know men from Louisiana flew high as Tuskegee Airmen in World War II?
They served in every theater of World War II ... outside the Army. Shreveport Democratic Representative Joy Walters shared a post Monday on Instagram featuring the names of men from Louisiana ...
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Army Private Is Identified Almost 80 Years After Death in World War II
About 8,500 sets of remains of soldiers killed in World War II also could not be identified ... to Private Mahoney’s mother. “Of all the men in there that I’ve seen in action, none was ...
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Black World War II hero from Maryland finally honored after treating 200 on D-Day
WASHINGTON — Army Medic Waverly Woodson ... When he returned home after World War II, Woodson was denied medals usually given to white men with similar military service, including the Combat ...
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Best World War 2 Documentaries on PBS
World War II is one of the most significant events in ... You will also hear from the courageous men and women who fought in battle, as well as the Japanese Americans and European Jews who faced ...
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U.S. announces 7 POWs who died in World War II, 9 soldiers killed in Korea have been accounted for
Sixteen soldiers who died in World War II and the Korean War have been accounted ... The DPAA did not say how the nine men were accounted for or how the remains of the soldiers, some listed ...
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German soldiers captured in World War II held in East Texas POW camps
According to the Texas Historical Commission, more than 50 thousand German soldiers were held at nearly 70 prisoner of war internment camps in Texas during World War II. Many were captured ... each ...