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Guardian escorts remains of WWII uncle after nearly 80 years: ‘A humbling and inspiring experience’
A Space Force guardian escorted the remains of her great-great-uncle Staff Sgt. Loring E. Lord, a U.S. Army Air Forces gunner ...
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Excerpt: Rare World War II maps reveal Japan's Pearl Harbor strategy
On December 1, Admiral Yamamoto gave aircraft carriers the go-ahead to bomb Pearl Harbor—one of several blows delivered simultaneously in a vast Japanese offensive that expanded World War II ...
Omaha.com4d
Omaha WWII Marine wounded at Iwo Jima dies at 98
No one was going to keep young Duane Tunnyhill from fighting in World War II, wearing the uniform of the United States Marines. But the Omaha lad had a big problem. Even after his 17th birthday ...
La Crosse Tribune2d
The injured mind of an American hero: La Crosse WWII veteran one of thousands lobotomized by the U.S. government after the war
“But it was my duty to take it.” Tritz was one of roughly 2,000 World War II veterans lobotomized during and after the war, a recent Wall Street Journal investigation discovered. The ...