Charlie Brown, the West Virginia bomber pilot that was saved by an enemy pilot in World War II
A West Virginian man was flying a damaged B-17 bomber that was about to be shot down by German forces during World War II ...
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A war story: Son of longtime MPD officer Harold “Hap” Houlihan reflects on his father’s WWII service, bombing mission led by James Stewart
Francis Houlihan, small town Iowa grocery man, only five years removed from his high school graduation, found himself 85 ...
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The 5 Best Fighter Jets of World War II
World War II saw the emergence of some groundbreaking jet fighters that revolutionized aerial warfare. The Messerschmitt Me ...
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Famous POWs: Celebrities Who Were Held Captive By the Enemy During World War II
What you might not be aware of is that there were a fair few who were captured during the action and held as prisoners of war ...
‘I don’t deserve all this': WW2 Veteran honored at South Carolina Military Museum
The South Carolina Military Museum honored one of the few World War II veterans still alive, 99-year-old Bruce Cook.
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The Remarkable Story of the WWII Ghost Army
My father, a longtime Milwaukeean, duped Nazis with a fake army during World War II– then stayed silent about his secret ...
The Daily Campus9d
This Week In History: Nov. 3 – Nov. 9 “How to treat submechanophobia.”
I think I may have submechanophobia. The very thought of being submerged underwater in a solid metal casket loaded with explosive torpedoes chills me to the core. And yet, for Adolf Hitler, ...
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WW2: Why do we love the Spitfire?
50 calibre machine-guns. The fighters provided crucial air support for the D-Day landings and many were adapted to be fighter-bombers to carry out attacks on German ground forces. WW2: What was ...