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Joe Pitula was honored May 18 at a gathering in honor of his 100th birthday at the Flemington post of the Veterans of Foreign ...
Newark Advocate veterans columnist Doug Stout of the Licking County Library describes the challenges Newark's Arthur B. Hiles faced in World War II.
Examine Bob Hope and his troupe of performers' impact on World War II. Legendary entertainer Bob ... July and August 1944 entertaining on Pacific islands the rest of the world knew little about ...
But just below all the beauty are the scars of the islands World War II past. ♪♪ The indigenous people of Guam, the Chamorros, have a long, proud history and cultural tradition dating back ...
According to Pima Air & Space Museum, the planes flew cargo between Hawaii and the Pacific Islands to support the U.S. Navy during World War II. “So this aircraft could fly over 2,000 miles.
its importance throughout World War II was paramount. In a chain of islands with a population around 20,000 strong, it hosted more than 12,000 military and civilian personnel at HMS Proserpine in ...
his most notable work experience was as a guerrilla warrior who blew up train tracks to stall Nazi troop movements in Slovakia during World War II. In New York, Strassmann diversified his skills.
He was like any other soldier serving in the Aleutians during World War II. Except he was 50 years ... In the summer of 1943, he was reassigned from New Jersey to Fort Lawton at Seattle, a staging ...
As every high school student should know, World War II did not end until Japan finally ... the generals planning a massive invasion of Japan’s main islands of Kyushu in the fall of 1945 and ...
At about 15:00 BST, crowds gathered at Westmount to remember the slaves from Nazi-occupied countries who died in the island during World War Two. The members of nine families descended from forced and ...
An alternative history in which Germany won the Second World War and Britain fell under Nazi rule proved to be a rich ...
At times during the occupation there was one German for every three islanders The Channel Islands, which is marking ... occupied by the Germans during World War Two. From 1940-1945 Germans set ...