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Idris Elba helps uncover the WWII soldiers of color who never got their due
Houston Chronicle· 4 days ago“That part of my family’s history has been erased somewhat,” says Elba. More than 8 million people...
Cumberland University hosted the Tennessee Maneuvers ahead of World War II
WKRN articles via Yahoo News· 1 day agoBefore young soldiers were shipped off to World War II, they were trained right here in Middle...
D-Day at Omaha Beach taught Carl Felton, now 98, that life and democracy are fragile
Chambersburg Public Opinion via Yahoo News· 1 day agoHe also had an older brother who had been there since not long after Pearl Harbor was attacked on...
Who Were the Americans Who Fought on D-Day?
The Bulwark· 1 day agoEnter Kléber Arhoul. The chief executive of the Mémorial de Caen and general curator of its new exhibition, The Dawn of the American Century (1919–1944), Arhoul waxed eloquent ...
‘Star Trek’ actor George Takei determined to keep telling his Japanese American story
North Platte Telegraph· 5 days agoThe incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans, including children, labeled enemies during World...
The life, death and return home of Pvt. Harold Poulter
Journal Gazette & Times-Courier· 6 days agoHarold Poulter of Charleston, Illinois successfully made the crossing but...