Duty Calls: World War II vet receives diploma, medals at 99th birthday celebration

Dominic Bersani received the diploma through a state program that gives certificates to veterans who left school to serve ...

NZDF confirms medals for 85 Cook Islands WWII veterans after decades of denial

For more than eight decades, the service of over 80 Cook Islanders who served during World War II went untold and ...
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3rd Infantry Division WWII veteran receives French Legion of Honour

TONAWANDA, N.Y. — John Gojmerac, a WWII veteran who served in the 3rd Infantry Division, received the insignia of Knight of the Legion of Honour from Jeremie Robert, consul general of France in New ...
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Aircraft, Flight Jackets and Pins: How Walt Disney's Characters Inspired Troops in WWII

In 1933, a Navy Reserve Squadron in New York asked Walt Disney's company to develop an insignia for the military unit. What Disney devised was an image of Mickey Mouse riding a goose, with a Navy ...
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Remains of WWII Army Private William Calkins returned and laid to rest in Hillsboro memorial service, 82 years later

HILLSBORO, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The remains of U.S. Army Private William E. Calkins were laid to rest at Fir Lawn Memorial Park in Hillsboro on Friday during a memorial service honoring the World War II ...
Chicago Tribune

Column: After 80 years, family to receive medals earned by Aurora man killed in action in World War II

At age 83, Anna Green Showerman can confidently declare “I’ve never liked fire.” Even the burning of brush or a smoking barbecue pit has always made the Batavia woman nervous. As it turned out, fires ...