World War II
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Aircraft Carrier Named After Doris Miller
The U.S. Navy is set to name a new aircraft carrier after World War II hero Doris Miller.
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BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Lost Eleven’ by Denise George and Robert Child
If you want to learn about these brave African-American soldiers, there are much better ways.
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Dive Team Explores Wreckage of Tuskegee Airman’s WWII Plane
MIKE HOUSEHOLDER, Associated Press PORT HURON, Mich. (AP) — Kamau Sadiki traveled from the nation’s capital to Michigan to join…
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Japan Marks 70th Anniversary of Hiroshima Atomic Bombing
KAORI HITOMI, Associated Press MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Japan marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic…
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Japan Has a Flag Problem, too
Adam Taylor, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post) — As the debate about the use of the Confederate flag…
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Black and Jewish WWI Heroes Finally Receive Medal of Honor
NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Declaring it’s never too late to make things right, President Barack Obama posthumously…
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In Israel, Biracial German Author Probes Her Nazi Heritage
ARON HELLER, Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — When Jennifer Teege stumbled upon a book in a Hamburg library seven years…
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War Memorial Separates Dead by Race, Divides Southern City
JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press GREENWOOD, S.C. (AP) — Along Main Street in a small South Carolina city, there is war…
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2 Tuskegee Airmen, Both 91, Die on Same Day in Los Angeles
JOHN ROGERS, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Clarence E. Huntley Jr. and Joseph Shambrey grew up running track together…
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