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102-year-old WWII vet from New York dies while traveling to D-Day ceremony in France
NBC News via Yahoo News· 30 minutes agoHe spent 15 months at sea assigned to the command ship USS Eldorado in the Pacific as a junior radio...
World War II veteran Robert Persichitti dies at 102 while traveling to France for D-Day’s 80th...
CNN.com· 3 hours agoRobert Persichitti, a 102-year-old World War II US Navy veteran, died last week while on his way to...
Amphibious WW2 'Duck' vehicle reenacts Normandy landing on D-Day anniversary
Reuters via AOL· 6 minutes agoWar Two amphibious vehicle landed on Gold Beach in Normandy on Thursday, exactly 80 years after the allied landing that started the liberation of France from Nazi occupation ...
102-Year-Old WWII Veteran Who Saw Flag Raised at Iwo Jima Dies on Way to D-Day Event in France
People via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoAP Photo/Joe Rosenthal U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise a U.S. flag atop Mount...
Biden calls for solidarity with Ukraine at D-Day anniversary ceremony near the beaches of Normandy
San Francisco Chronicle· 3 hours agoJoe Biden marked the 80th anniversary of D-Day on Thursday by pledging “we will not walk away” from...
Marine vet with local ties publishes book on forgotten war - The Reminder
The Reminder· 6 hours agoTom Hebert is racked by survivor’s guilt, and because of it, the former Marine is writing a seven-volume series of books about the Marine Corps. “There ...
WWII veteran who witnessed flag-raising at Iwo Jima dies on way to D-Day commemoration in France
The Independent US via AOL· 6 hours agoHis friend and travel companion, Al DeCarlo, told the outlet that in his final moments, the doctor...
Tulsa Marine saved others before he died | Only in Oklahoma
Tulsa World· 5 hours agoA young Tulsa Marine knocked out two enemy machine-gun nests on Okinawa with a flamethrower that he...
Marine Wargaming Center, Allowing High-Tech Prep for War, Unveiled at Quantico
Military.com via Yahoo News· 6 days agoMarine Corps is five years into an ambitious reorganization plan called Force Design, intended to...
The Biggest War on the Small Screen
The Bulwark· 9 hours agoThere was only one depiction of war that ever fully satisfied his discerning eye: Band of Brothers, the 2001 HBO miniseries developed by Steven Spielberg...