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The oldest Medal of Honor recipient has died, 74 years after throwing himself...
US Army veteran Bob Maxwell, who earned the Medal of Honor during World War II, died in Oregon on Saturday.In Besancon, France, on September 7, 1944, Maxwell grabbed a blanket and threw himself on a...
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A new documentary captures the heroism and horror of one of World War II's...
New documentary "The Cold Blue" depicts life for US Army Air Force B-17 bomber crews flying daylight missions over Europe.Their mission was to break the back of the Nazi war machine, and it took a...
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3 major wars that are still technically being fought, decades after the...
The factors that make armed conflict hard to fight can also make it hard to end, and there are a number of wars that are technically ongoing — including the major conflicts of the 20th century.Visit...
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25-year-old German cookie heiress apologizes for downplaying family history...
Verena Bahlsen, a 25-year-old heiress of Germany's Bahlsen cookie company, defended her family's history of using 200 forced laborers under Nazi rule."We paid the forced laborers exactly as much as...
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76 years ago, the Allies launched a gutsy raid with a new kind of weapon to...
The Dam Busters Raid of 1943 was written off for decades as a symbolic victory for the Allies.But details unearthed in recent years indicated the daring raid, which deployed a new type of bomb, struck...
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It's been 77 years since one of World War II's worst atrocities — the Bataan...
After the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces advanced across the Pacific, catching Allied forces off-guard.In the Philippines, tens of thousands of US and Filipino troops surrendered in...
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76 years ago, the Allies launched a gutsy raid with a new kind of weapon to...
The Dam Busters Raid of 1943 was written off for decades as a symbolic victory for the Allies.But details unearthed in recent years indicated the daring raid, which deployed a new type of bomb, struck...
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It's been 77 years since one of World War II's worst atrocities — the Bataan...
After the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces advanced across the Pacific, catching Allied forces off-guard.In the Philippines, tens of thousands of US and Filipino troops surrendered in...
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76 years ago, the Allies launched a gutsy raid with a new kind of weapon to...
The Dam Busters Raid of 1943 was written off for decades as a symbolic victory for the Allies.But details unearthed in recent years indicated the daring raid, which deployed a new type of bomb, struck...
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One small Virginia town had the US's highest losses on D-Day — here's how...
The small, southwest Virginia town of Bedford was home to 20 of the US soldiers who died during the D-Day landings on June 6, 1944.The 20 deaths, 19 from one company, were among the steepest death...
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US Green Berets honoring their WWII past just dropped into one of the world's...
135 US Army paratroopers with the 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) jumped from three US Air Force MC-130J special mission aircraft into France this weekend.These elite soldiers dropped into fields...
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A World War II plane that carried the first wave of troops on D-Day was...
A C-47 troop transport that led the invasion of France on D-Day was found in poor, but complete, shape in a aviation boneyard in Wisconsin.Now repaired, the plane, called "That's All, Brother," will...
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An American World War II bomb caused widespread damage in a German city when...
The controlled detonation of a World War II bomb caused widespread damage in the southern German city of Regensburg on Wednesday. Some 4,500 residents were evacuated before the explosive was detonated....
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World War II ended 74 years ago, but an old US bomb still wrecked a bunch of...
A controlled detonation of a US bomb from World War II did extensive damage to homes in a southern German city.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.BERLIN (AP) — The controlled detonation...
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US Green Berets honoring their WWII past just dropped into one of the world's...
135 US Army paratroopers with the 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) jumped from three US Air Force MC-130J special mission aircraft into France this weekend.These elite soldiers dropped into fields...
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A World War II plane that carried the first wave of troops on D-Day was...
A C-47 troop transport that led the invasion of France on D-Day was found in poor, but complete, shape in a aviation boneyard in Wisconsin.Now repaired, the plane, called "That's All, Brother," will...
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Here are US World War II soldiers' uncensored opinions about the military and...
During World War II, over a half-million service members filled out surveys or were interviewed by US Army researchers.The resulting surveys indicated that US troops wanted the Army to be a more...
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The horror and triumph of D-Day, in the words of 6 US veterans who were there
The Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944, was the largest amphibious operation ever undertaken.Some 160,000 Allied troops arrived in Europe from the sea and sky — here are the recollections of six...
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One of WWII's most iconic fighter planes just took to the sky once more...
A restored P-51 Mustang fighter flew alongside US Air Force F-16 fighters in Germany this week.The Mustang was once flown by late Brig. Gen. Robin Olds, a triple-ace who shot down enemy planes in World...
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An iconic British Spitfire fighter plane is on display in London for the 75th...
A replica British Spitfire fighter is on display in London ahead of the 75th anniversary of the June 6, 1944, D-Day landings.The British used the Spitfire throughout the war, and the replica is one...
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