A soldier from Virginia who died on D-Day has been accounted for 81 years after he was killed, officials said in a news release. The company disembarked from their landing craft at around 7 a.m.
He was there at the start of D-Day, the biggest military invasion of all time. And he was there at the start of the invasion of Okinawa, the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific in World War II.
An exhibit in the MAPS Aviation Museum in Canton, Ohio, highlights what was Army Staff Sgt. Edward Hopko’s duty as a mapmaker during World War II. An aerial photo shows Navy ships near a beach in ...
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - A powerful piece of history touched down in the “Air Capital of the World” this weekend. Visitors at the Kansas Aviation Museum got a close-up look at a restored C-47 aircraft ...
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Recently identified Iowan soldier killed during D-Day invasion to be buried 81 years later
The remains of an Iowan soldier that were recently identified will be laid to rest 81 years to the day of his death. U.S. Army Private James L. Harrington was killed during the D-Day invasion of ...
DENVER (KDVR) — Hector M. Flores served, fought and was wounded in Europe after the D-Day invasion during World War II. But when he returned to Colorado, he didn’t receive a hero’s welcome. Navy ...
Chaminade High School students prayed for hours at the gravesite of a long-forgotten alum who heroically died after the D-Day invasion of Normandy during a recent trip to France. Officials at the Long ...
SOUTH HADLEY — While the world was honoring U.S. and allied troops on the 81st anniversary of D-Day in Normandy, France, this month, a Holyoke priest was in a small French chapel paying tribute to a ...
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