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“The three years I spent in the army taught me all I needed to know about loneliness,” Schulz wrote in “My Life with Charlie Brown,” published in 2010. “My sympathy for the loneliness that all of us experience is dropped heavily upon poor Charlie Brown.” Charles Schulz, was drafted into…
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Please take a moment to join us at WWII uncovered in remembering Robert Clary, Holocaust Survivor and French actor most notably known for his role as Corporal LeBeau in the popular CBS sitcom Hogan’s Heroes. Robert passed away on November 16, 2022 in his Los Angeles California home as reported…
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“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” – Winston Churchill Pictured below are Richard Hugh Anthony Lee and Albert Gerald Lewis during the Battle of Britain. Richard joined RAF Cranwell as a Flight Cadet in September 1935 and graduated in…
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An American patrol reported that at least 100 German soldiers were headed down the cobblestone road. When the Americans opened fire, the Germans scattered. But the superior German numbers and firepower soon took their toll: Two GIs were killed, four were injured and many of the remaining Americans were taken…
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Son of Amos Jackson and Nannie Lorene-Webb. Two siblings, Robert Frank, and Doris Madiline. Attended Tenaha HS. On June 30, 1942, six months following the United States entry into World War II, Arvin registered for the military draft in Center, Texas, the county seat of Shelby. His registration card noted…
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Sergeant First Class James “JR” R. Stright died in the early morning hours of 23 October 2009. He was a crewmember aboard an MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter when it crashed off the coast of Virginia during a night training mission on 22 October 2009. SFC Stright was born on 18…
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John Robert Fox of Cincinnati, Ohio, a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on December 26, 1944, near Sommocolonia, Italy. Fox graduated from Wilberforce University with a commission as a second lieutenant in 1940. On December 26, 1944, he…
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The South Africa’s Department of Correctional Services has said that it is embarrassed with viral videos of a female warder who was caught having sex with an inmate in one of the offices at the prison in KwaZulu-Natal. The video which has gone viral on social media showed the female…
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This still photo was taken from a stock footage film made by the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War II. A military newsreel which featured Filipino soldiers training In California showed the “FIRST ALL-FILIPINO REGIMENT” of the U.S. Army. The 1st Filipino Battalion was originally formed at Camp San…
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A single perfect tank cannot offer the same combat power as ten adequate but imperfect tanks. Most American tankers would have preferred to be sitting on a more powerful tank like the Panther, but no commander would have been content to substituted his many Shermans for a much smaller number…