09 Jan, 2025

Navy veteran deep cleans forgotten WWII headstones

Trae Zipperer is the founding father of By Memorial Day, a nonprofit that seeks to advertise the annual upkeep of veteran headstones positioned exterior of nationwide cemeteries. Trae, a Navy veteran, believes it is a shame that there are soiled and deteriorating veteran headstones across the nation. His aim is to have volunteers devoted to […]

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WWII Air Power skilled charges 8 dogfights in films

Pilot and Air Power officer Lt. Col. Matt Ziemann charges eight World Conflict II dogfight scenes in films for realism. He discusses the accuracy of actual World Conflict II-era dogfights portrayed in Christopher Nolan’s “Dunkirk” (2017), starring Tom Hardy; Michael Bay’s “Pearl Harbor” (2001), starring Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett; and “Battle of Britain” (1969), […]

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A 101-year-old WWII veteran lastly walked at his faculty commencement ceremony, 80 years after he was speculated to

On Could 14, 101-year-old Fred Taylor walked at Cornell Faculty’s 2023 commencement ceremony. He missed his personal class’ commencement ceremony, in 1943, whereas coaching to serve in WWII. The heartwarming second was made doable by his 74-year-old daughter, Linda. Loading One thing is loading. Thanks for signing up! Entry your favourite matters in a customized […]

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Famed photographer Dorothea Lange's pictures of Japanese internment throughout WWII was censored by the US authorities that additionally employed her to doc it within the first place

In 2006, a e-book assortment of Lange’s broad portfolio of Japanese American internment was revealed underneath the title, “Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Pictures of Japanese American Internment.” A grandfather and grandson of Japanese ancestry on the Manzanar Relocation Heart in Manzanar, California. Dorothea Lange / United States Nationwide Archives Linda Gordon, a historian […]

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