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The Tale of the Tuskegee Airmen Is Told in a New Documentary
Time via AOL· 2 days agoRoosevelt famously traveled to Tuskegee to be photographed in a plane with an African American ...
'I've never felt so special': Boone County veteran honored for World War II service
Gannett via AOL· 8 hours agoWe remember not just the size, significance and complexity of this (D-Day) operation but those that...
Mother of gunned down Airman says she keeps ‘hoping it’s a dream’
WSB Cox articles via Yahoo News· 3 days agoChannel 2′s Tyisha Fernandes spoke one-on-one Monday with the airman’s mother, Meka Fortson She told...
Florida deputy who shot Black airman is fired from his job
Washington Post· 6 days agoThe Florida deputy who killed a Black Air Force airman in his apartment was fired from the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office on Friday, after an internal ...
The last WWII vets converge on Normandy for D-Day and fallen friends and to cement their legacy
Houston Chronicle· 2 days agoUnder their feet, the sands of Omaha Beach, and in their rheumy eyes, tears that inevitably flowed...
Centenarian veterans are sharing their memories of D-Day, 80 years later
Seattle Times· 3 days ago“I am the luckiest man in the world,” D-Day veteran Jake Larson, a 101-year-old American best known...
Roy S. Johnson: On D-Day 80 years ago, Black heroes stormed the shores, too
Birmingham News· 20 hours agoThe near-three-month World War II campaign under Gen. (and future President) Dwight D. Eisenhower...
Working for Well-Being | American Libraries Magazine
American Libraries Magazine· 4 days agoOver the past decade, mental health support in libraries has grown more inventive, specific, and widespread. American Libraries spoke with workers from...
Film highlights finding of Tuskegee airman's plane 70 years after crash in Lake Huron
Detroit News· 2 days agoA World War II plane piloted by a Tuskegee Airman went down in 1944 in Lake Huron, and until a dive...
80th anniversary of D-Day commemorated across mid-Missouri
KOMU Columbia· 10 hours agoIn Columbia, people gathered in the Boone County War Memorial Plaza in front of the courthouse to...