An SC WWII captain was shot down, taken prisoner by Nazis. A memorial is planned in Germany.
Greenville native Miles Richard "Dick" League, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, fought in World War II. He was a prisoner of ...
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Carrots Can’t Help You See in the Dark. Here’s How a World War II Propaganda Campaign Popularized the Myth
The British government claimed that eating carrots helped its fighter pilots shoot down German planes at night. In truth, the ...
Germany is permanently stationing troops in another country for the first time since World War II
Germany is putting thousands of troops in Lithuania, a NATO member that borders Russia. It's the first long-term deployment ...
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Italy’s Macchi C.202 Folgore Was a Great WWII Plane. Why Has No One Ever Heard of It?
The Folgore’s lightweight construction (weighing around 5,500 pounds) and responsive handling earned it praise from its ...
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Missing WWII warfighters found, Families find closure after 80 years
Missing in Action. Just six weeks before World War II would end, the news came to four U.S. service member Families via ...
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Lewistown airman dies in one of WWII’s worst single-day losses
By the time Raymond K. “Duke” Deamer joined his bomber unit in February 1944 at RAF Knettishall, Suffolk, England, the ...
Hero pilot from NKY to be laid to rest 81 years after death in Germany during WWII
De Jarnette was killed on April 8, 1944, while serving as the pilot of a B-24 Liberator bomber with the 732nd Bombardment ...
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World War II veteran laid to rest at Nevada cemetery 80 years later
The remains of a World War II Army veteran were laid to rest Friday at the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in ...
Germany launches FIRST permeant troop deployment since WW2 as 5,000 soldiers to be sent to face down tyrant Putin
GERMANY launched its first permeant deployment of troops to foreign soil since World War Two on Tuesday. In a break with ...
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Remains of soldier shot down over Germany during WWII to be interred this week
The remains of U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Robert D. McKee, who was killed during World War II, will be interred with full ...
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Germany is permanently stationing troops in another country for the first time since World War II
NATO countries have also deployed assets such as fighter jets and air defenses ... World War I and World War II legacies, which led to an avoidance of heavy militarism, Germany has committed ...