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George Vujnovich dies at 96; leader of daring World War II rescue
In 1944, as head of the Office of Strategic Services in Bari, Italy, George Vujnovich guided a team of agents who worked with Yugoslav guerrilla leader Draza Mihailovich to airlift more than 500 airmen from a makeshift runway carved on a mountaintop in...Tags: Serbia, Jackson Heights, Italy, The New York Times, Petroleum Industry
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Bus exhibit revisits World War II
An exhibit that explores the experiences of Midwesterners captured in Germany and their experiences in World War II is coming to Ellendale on Monday. “Behind Barbed Wire” is housed in a converted school bus which illustrates this history through...Tags: Iowa, Wars and Interventions, Music Theater, Minnesota, U.S. Army
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War diary returns after 63 years
Of The Morning CallYou hear of these things now and again: a class ring or a letter or a library book improbably emerging from the clutter of decades and finding its way back to its owner. For Army veteran Dennis Sweeney, 91, it was a wartime diary — jottings of high...Tags: Christmas, Crime, Law and Justice, Religious Festivals, Poetry, Gaming
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Memorial held for D-Day soldier
Of The Morning CallJammed shoulder to shoulder in amphibious landing craft No. 418, hardened Army Rangers sang "Happy Anniversary" as they crossed the English Channel in the D-Day invasion of Normandy. It was June 6, 1944, Sgt. Walter Geldon's third wedding anniversary....Tags: Christianity, Freemansburg, Armed Forces, Wedding Products and Services, Hellertown
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Whitehall man recalls sins of the fatherland
Of The Morning CallFirst Lt. Gerhard G. Hennes, a communications specialist in Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps, had heard rumors of Jews and Gypsies being herded into concentration camps in Germany and Poland. He could not bring himself to believe them. Then, as...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Crime, Law and Justice, Armed Forces, Sports, World War II (1939-1945)
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War game tests, builds teamwork in military
Sun National StaffGRAFENWOEHR, Germany - Symbols of war illuminate the sprawling, computer-generated wall map. A thatch of green lines shows the air routes of U.S. attack aircraft. Blue circles reflect the lethal reach of the Army's Patriot missile batteries. In the...Tags: George W. Bush, Baghdad (Iraq), Armed Forces, Gaming, Military Equipment
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Forging America: The History of Bethlehem Steel - Chapter 6
In a 1985 survey of 50 women war workers at Bethlehem Steel, Carol Baylor, a journalist doing a program for National Public Radio, found that many were living at home with their parents when the war broke out. Those who had children had friends or...Tags: Bethlehem Steel, Katharine Hepburn, Allentown, Armed Forces, Metal and Mineral
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Into the water, across the sand, under fire
Sun StaffThird of five chapters In his bunk aboard HMS Empire Javelin, Pvt. Charles "Harry" Heinlein felt gentle rocking as the vessel, packed with more than 1,200 American soldiers, awaited orders to leave Weymouth harbor for one of the greatest military...Tags: Wars and Interventions, U.S. Navy, Armed Forces, Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. Army
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When a wave of torture and murder staggered a small U.S. ally, truth was a casualty.
Sun Staff(First in a series) TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - The search for Nelson Mackay Chavarria - family man, government lawyer, possible subversive - began one Sunday in 1982 after he devoured a pancake breakfast and stepped out to buy a newspaper. It ended last...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Armed Forces, Argentina, Witnesses, U.S. Embassy
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Unearthed: Fatal Secrets
Sun StaffThe search for Nelson Mackay Chavarria - family man, government lawyer, possible subversive - began one Sunday in 1982 after he devoured a pancake breakfast and stepped out to buy a newspaper. It ended last December when his wife, Amelia, watched as...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Armed Forces, Argentina, Witnesses, U.S. Embassy
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