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Missing bow of World War II cruiser found after 83 years
On Nov. 30, 1942, the USS New Orleans was in the middle of a pitched battle off of Guadalcanal. A Japanese torpedo scored a ...
UK’s oldest WWII veteran, Donald Rose, dies at 110
Britain’s oldest World War II veteran, Donald Rose, has died at 110. Rose participated in the D-Day landings in 1944 and ...
WWII American warship's severed bow found 80 years after being blown off in battle
After 80 years, researchers located the bow of USS New Orleans torn off by a Japanese torpedo during a 1942 WWII naval battle ...
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Thieves make off with WWII-era relics from DG Karachi parks office
KARACHI: Rare World War II memorial shields and other valuables have gone missing from the office of the Karachi Metropolitan ...
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USS New Orleans lost its bow in WWII but kept fighting. Now the wreckage has been found.
The USS New Orleans was at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and responded to the Japanese air attack. Later, the vessel pulled ...
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Fort Johnson honors WWII general and becomes Fort Polk — again
Polk now refers to a General James H. Polk, a World War II cavalryman who became a commander of U.S. Army Europe.
‘Carrying the torch': WWII soldier who died in prison camp in Philippines identified, buried in S.F.
Ernest Ulrich, a World War II soldier who died in the Philippines after being subjected to the brutal Bataan Death March, was ...
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Polk Family honored to have Louisiana Army base named after WWII hero father
FORT POLK - In a ceremony Friday at the Fort Polk Joint Readiness Training Center, the Vernon Parish Army base was ...
Anna Mae Robertson, Member of WWII’s ‘Six Triple Eight’ Unit, Dies at 101
The unit of 855 Black women was celebrated for clearing a massive backlog of undelivered mail for American service members.
During WWII, thousands of Long Islanders built aircrafts—but many of their names were never recorded
Working on the Home Front, 1942–1945." exhibit features a collection of about 50 black-and-white photographs of wartime ...
Thousands gather in Srebrenica on 30th anniversary of Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since WWII
Thousands of people from Bosnia and around the world are gathering in Srebrenica to mark the 30th anniversary of the massacre of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim boys and men.