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During WWII, Oklahoma's Thunderbirds fought across Europe. Fate led them to Dachau
Gen. George Patton gave the Thunderbirds high praise, saying "the 45th Infantry Division is one of the best, if not the best..." ...
Duty Calls: WWII soldier, Cohoes native ID'd after POW camp death
Army Maj. James J. O’Donovan, a native of Cohoes, was finally laid to rest 80 years after he died in a prisoner of war camp ...
80 years ago, American soldiers captured the center of Nazi Germany
The Battle of Nuremberg, one of the last American battles in Europe in World War II, saw the 7th Army engage in days of ...
Army Major honored at Miramar National Cemetery, decades after death in World War II
U.S. Army Maj. James J. O'Donovan of Cohoes, New York, was interred Tuesday at the national cemetery, 83 years after his ...
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WWII soldier buried with full military honors 8 decades after his death as a POW
U.S. Army Maj. James J. O’Donovan, more than 80 years after he died as a POW during World War II, was laid to rest with full ...
The Times of Israel8d
101-year-old WWII veteran recalls US Army’s seder night, weeks before liberating Dachau
Hilbert Margol still regularly speaks about the atrocities he saw firsthand at the notorious Nazi concentration camp as a ...
The Republican Herald10d
The 48th and 96th PA regiments trained on Pottsville’s Lawton’s Hill for the Civil War
My grandparents, Nathan and Domenica Borga DePauli, had a farmette on the Route 61 side of Lawton’s Hill until after World War II. In fact, their house was demolished to make way for the new Route ...
Compton’s Sgt. Joe Harris, who died at age 108, honored for legacy with all-Black battalion
Harris, who died March 15, was honored Saturday at Lewis Metropolitan CME Church before his burial in Inglewood.
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The Meriden Veteran Honor Guard may have a new name but the mission and military burials remain
Meriden Veterans Honor Guard was honored for its military burials and all of the work it does honoring veterans and their ...