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Tuskegee Airman, 100, passes

| February 6, 2025 | 14 Comments
Tuskegee Airman, 100, passes

  Tuskegee airman Harry Stewart died at his home in Bloomfield Hills, MI on Sunday. Harry T. Stewart Jr. was born July 4, 1924, in Newport News, Virginia. His family moved to New York City two years later. Stewart told the National World War II Memorial he used to walk over to nearby North Beach […]

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WWII Darby’s Ranger ID’ed

| January 31, 2025 | 8 Comments
WWII Darby’s Ranger ID’ed

Darby’s Rangers are considered the WWII predecessors to the current U.S. Army Rangers today. Commanded by William O. Darby (who was KIA at age 34) his Rangers were trained up in Northern Ireland by British Commandos. Many of his new Rangers came from his unit, the 34th Infantry. Today we remember 23 year old PFC […]

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Auschwitz Anniversary

| January 27, 2025 | 30 Comments
Auschwitz Anniversary

  Today marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and associated local camps at the end of WWII. The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops is being marked on Monday at the site of the former death camp, a ceremony that is widely being treated as the last major […]

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Another WWII ace in the making?

| January 13, 2025 | 11 Comments
Another WWII ace in the making?

I mentioned Saturday that there are only a few aces left from WWII – over the years, there have been a few certified post-war after reviewing their records. Here’s a case which is ongoing – and most likely to be the last ace to be certified from WWII. Think we’ve seen mention of James McCubbin […]

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WWII Ace COL Perry Dahl dead at 101

| January 11, 2025 | 5 Comments
WWII Ace COL Perry Dahl dead at 101

Perry Dahl, who had a storied career flying for the US., died at the tender young age of 101. He is described as one of the last of 1297 air aces – I did not find a definitive list of survivors but did see a reference to him as one of  four left – and […]

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Dutch name 400K+ supposed Nazi supporters

| January 6, 2025 | 22 Comments
Dutch name 400K+ supposed Nazi supporters

Another on the list of “government findings we’re not going to tell you for a very long time” . This time, it is the list of supposed collaborators in the Netherlands during the Nazi years, kept classified until this New Year. The records, consisting of 32 million pages, include about 425,000 mostly Dutch people who […]

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Lost one more

| January 4, 2025 | 7 Comments
Lost one more

Been an ugly fortnight for Pearl Harbor survivors. Harry Chandler, 103,  died December 30 at the Florida nursing home where he lived. The third Pearl Harbor survivor to die in the past few weeks, Chandler was a hospital corpsman 3rd class on Dec. 7, 1941, when waves of Japanese fighter planes dropped bombs and fired […]

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Two lost

| December 30, 2024 | 9 Comments
Two lost

  A bit back when we talked about Pearl Harbor vets, the source article said there were a total of 16 still left. Sadly, as of Christmas that number is down to 15. Warren Upton, the oldest living survivor of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 105. Upton’s Christmas Day death […]

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