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SASHA LENNINGER SHOWS US ON THIS TRIP AS A WORLD WAR TWO VETERAN WHO TURNS 100. IN AUGUST ON THE NATIONAL MALL IN WASHINGTON, ...
VOORHEESVILLE — June 11 was a day to remember for Betty Filkins. In the afternoon, FedEx delivered a package to her Westerlo home containing a Gold Medal to honor her late father, Charles H. “Sonny” ...
It is difficult to imagine the terror onboard the U.S.S. Tang on Oct. 24, 1944. The submarine was in the Taiwan Strait off the coast of China that day when it was struck by a circular run of its own ...
Neil Smoak has spent his life studying his family, including three Smoak men from Colleton County who died June 9, 1944, during the Normandy invasion.
From crumbling fortresses and mountain battlefields to rusty gun emplacements and skeletal ships, there are ghostly reminders ...
A ship that US and Philippine forces planned to sink beat them to it. A former US World War II-era warship ... involves more than 14,000 Filipino and US troops in exercises designed to be ...
These aren’t like the troop landing ships one sees in World War II movies, disgorging troops on beaches from ... “would require a large number of ships to transport personnel and equipment across the ...
Brazilian Navy On July 19, 1944, a Nazi submarine torpedoed and sank the Vital de Oliveira, a Brazilian ship that transported troops during World War II. Now, more than 80 years later ...
After more than 80 years hidden beneath the waves off Rio de Janeiro, the location of a Brazilian troop ... ship, built in 1910 and outfitted as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World ...
(CNN) — After more than 80 years hidden beneath the waves off Rio de Janeiro, the location of a Brazilian troop transport ship ... when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies.