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World War II veteran who turns 103 on Memorial Day recalls his months as POW in Germany
Gannett via AOL· 6 days agoGeorge Stowell Burson had brisket and potato salad for lunch last week. It was a far cry from the...
World War II veterans speak to the ages
CBS News· 6 days agoIn 1943 Vincent Speranza, the son of Italian immigrants, enlisted when he turned 18. "Twelve-thousand Americans in that town held off 56,000 German...
'It shaped our lives': Vietnam was a story of death, sorrow and pain | Guest column
The Lakeland Ledger· 7 days agoThe Vietnam War was one of the longest, costliest, deadliest wars the United States has ever fought....
Barred from combat, women working as codebreakers, cartographers and coxswains helped D-Day succeed
WHO13.com· 2 days agoLONDON (AP) — What did you do in the war, Granny? For British women who came of age during World War...
Finally, a long-aborted World War II effort is a Mission Accomplished
Gannett via AOL· 4 days agoThomson, the mission was accomplished. Si Liberman, 99, a retired editor of the Asbury Park Sunday...
B-17 Flying Fortress "Sentimental Journey" makes a tour stop in Savannah for Memorial Day
Savannah Morning News via Yahoo News· 6 days agoNow dubbed Sentimental...Savannah before migrating to England to take on the German war machine. The...
80 years later, sacrifices and legacy of D-Day endure
Watertown Daily Times, N.Y. via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoJun. 1—WATERTOWN — Eighty years ago, the focus of Americans turned to the shores of France, where on June 6, vast allied armadas launched an invasion to begin the liberation of Europe from the ...
Arkansas WWII veteran headed back to Normandy for 80th anniversary of D-Day
KARK via Yahoo News· 4 days agoLITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A local World War II veteran has been selected to attend an upcoming return to...
America pioneered war-crime justice at Nuremberg. Then we ran away.
Philly.com· 2 days agoThe Nuremberg war crimes trials — a first-of-its-kind effort by America and its allies to hold World War II’s surviving ...
Warbirds in flight: Remembering Casper's contribution to World War II
Casper Star-Tribune· 7 days agoIn Casper’s case, the term harkens back to the Second World War and the now-decommissioned Casper...
