WWI & WWII

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  102-Year-Old WWII Veteran From All-Black, All-Female Battalion Is Honored For Her Service

  greatergood.com - The Breast Cancer Site

  A 102-year-old World War II veteran from an all-Black, all-female battalion was honored for her service at an...The post 102-Year-Old WWII Veteran …

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  Remains of WWII soldier, among 1st to land on D-Day, finally identified; burial now planned for Arlington

  oregonlive.com - By

  DNA, dental and other analyses confirmed the identity of remains buried in Belgium as a 27-year-old World War II soldier from North Carolina who died …

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  First World War poets: everything you wanted to know

  historyextra.com - Ellie Cawthorne

  Professor Catriona Pennell answers listener questions on the poetry of the First World War Ellie Cawthorne Subs offer How much has our view of the First …

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  Wildfires Are Setting Off 100-Year-Old Bombs on WWI Battlefields

  VICE Asia - Matthew Gault

  There are so many explosions due to the raging fire that officials have stopped counting them, local news reported. A wildfire is consuming Slovenia and as the blaze moves across areas that were once battlefields during World War I, it’s meeting century-old unexploded ordnance with deadly results. …

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  Black Marines were 'dogged' on this base in the 1940s. Now they're honored there

  NPR - Jay Price

  A project started in 2019 to restore key buildings used by the first Black Marines — and protect the structures from the effects of climate change — is nearly complete. During the 1940s, about 20,000 men trained under harsh conditions on a racially segregated base in North Carolina known as Montford …

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  Ritchie Boys: The secret U.S. unit bolstered by German-born Jews who helped the Allies beat Hitler

  CBS News - By Jon Wertheim

  For as casually as we often toss around the word "hero", sometimes no lesser term applies. Last year, we introduced you to members of a secret …