At Auschwitz, a Solemn Ceremony at a Time of Rising Nationalism
World leaders and a dwindling group of survivors are joining ceremonies to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the ...
Area fallen soldiers remembered 81 years after Allied landing craft sank off coast of Italy
When Allied forces landed on the Italian coast at Anzio 81 years ago, they began a four-month battle that left some 7,000 of ...
West Palm Beach centenarian reflects on extraordinary life of World War II heroism
West Palm Beach centenarian Franklin Simon, who celebrated his 100th birthday in June, served heroically in Europe during ...
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WWII veteran and native Mainer celebrates 103rd birthday
Battalion Sgt. Major Jim Mardin served in the U.S. Army in an anti-aircraft unit, disembarking onto Omaha Beach in Normandy ...
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WWII veteran from Maine celebrates his 103rd birthday
Battalion Sgt. Major James Mardin is still telling war stories more than 80 years after he arrived in Normandy, six days after D-Day.
33 eerie and abandoned World War II places
From a crumbling pill box in the UK to a derelict rail line in Hawaii, these are the abandoned World War II places that the ...
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Chattanooga native "Lucky" Luckadoo & The Bloody Hundredth Bomb Group in WWII
The 8th Air Force was established in the weeks following the attack on Pearl Harbor in February of 1942. The Mighty 8th ...
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Richard Schermerhorn, last known living D-Day veteran from Lehigh Valley, dies at 102
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (WPVI) -- The Lehigh Valley has lost its last known living D-Day Veteran. Richard Schermerhorn died a few ...
'He just loved people': Lehigh Valley's last known living D-Day veteran dies, archivist says
The World War II veteran served in the army. His oldest daughter, Nancy Moats, told 69 News Schermerhorn was just 22 when he ...
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Stories Behind The Stars: Private Henry E. O’Brien
Prior to U.S. entry in World War II, the 11th Infantry Regiment of the 5th Division of the U.S. Army activated for service in ...
Lehigh Valley veteran, one of last survivors who stormed the beaches on D-Day, dies at 102
World War II veteran Dick Schermerhorn, who cleared mines on a Normandy beach during the D-Day assault, died Tuesday. At 102, ...
Local WWII veteran, D-Day survivor Richard Schermerhorn dies at 102
ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Local World War II veteran Richard Schermerhorn, who landed on a Normandy beach during the D-Day invasion in 1944, has died at the age of 102.