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    USS Orleck: The WW2 Ship Has to Move But Who Wants Her

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    Feb 2, 2020 Ian Harvey

    USS Orleck: A long-held dream of the Jacksonville Historic Naval Ship Association could soon come true. For some time, they have been collecting funds and…

    US Marine Corps Veteran, 104, Seeks Valentine’s Cards for Collection

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    Jan 31, 2020 Ian Harvey

    Bill White, 104, is a US Marine Corps veteran who served for 30 years, including during World War II. He requested people send him Valentine’s…

    Found: USS Grayback, Final Resting Place of 80 Entombed Sailors

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    Jan 31, 2020 Ian Harvey

    Thanks to a Japanese amateur researcher, the wreck of the USS Grayback has been located off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, 75 years after the…

    Why The US Sent Librarians to Portugal During WWII

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    Jan 30, 2020 Ian Harvey

    Today librarians are expected to be the masters of database referencing technology. In 1942 the baseline was microfilm and specialists in the format suddenly found…

    CIA’s Rent-A-Rebel Flying Circus of a PBY Catalina, A-24 Invaders and P-51 Mustangs, Attacking Indonesia, 1958

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    Jan 30, 2020 Hans Wiesman

    In this DAKOTA HUNTER Blog, you will find the story of an almost forgotten episode in the long and fascinating history of the Civil Air Transport…

    “Frituur Zorro” Reviewed by Mark Barnes

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    Jan 29, 2020 Mark Barnes

    About a million years ago I was an active member of the greatest military vehicle club that ever there was, because, because. We built ourselves…

    Gone Viral: Bugler Stands & Plays Taps in the Rain, Tribute to WWII Nurse

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    Jan 29, 2020 Ian Harvey

    Specialist Melvin Taylor was present at the funeral of 100-year-old WWII nurse veteran Annie Ruth McVadon recently and was called upon to play the iconic…

    “What Needed to be Done” – Veteran Served as Navigator on Aircraft Patrolling Gulf Coast in WWII

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    Jan 28, 2020 Jeremy Amick

    During World War II, the military draft became the great equalizer—virtually all young men from various cross-sections of society had the potential to serve. Yet…

    Tension Between Poland & Russia Mars Holocaust 75th Anniversary

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    Jan 28, 2020 Ian Harvey

    The 27th January 2020 marked the 75th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviet Army. Auschwitz was the largest, as well as the…

    Son of War Hero Montgomery & Friend of Manfred Rommel, Dead at 91

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    Jan 28, 2020 Ian Harvey

    David Montgomery inherited his title from his father, the famous Field Marshal, who tackled Erwin ‘Desert Fox’ Rommel in the deserts of North Africa in…

    Why wasn’t Auschwitz bombed by the Allies

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    Jan 27, 2020 Ian Harvey

    On a cold April morning in 1944, two Jewish men somehow found themselves on the right side of the Auschwitz barbed wire. Rudolf Vrba and…

    Iconic Eisenhower & 101st AB Paratroopers Rise in Bronze

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    Jan 27, 2020 Ian Harvey

    This tableau was inspired by a famous photograph of Gen. Eisenhower talking to the men of the 101st Airborne Division before they took part in…

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