Tommy Dix, ‘Best Foot Forward’ Actor and Singer, Dies at 101
Known for the song “Buckle Down, Winsocki,” he graduated from a small part in the original Broadway musical to star alongside ...
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The Diefenthaler twins
Wilbur and Willard Diefenthaler were identical twins from Kiel, Wisconsin who fought in World War II. They were captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge.
Museum offers new home to gun St. Paulites used to fire first American shots of WWII
Navy photo of the USS Ward’s Number Three Gun and its crew. They were Minnesota reservists credited with firing the first ...
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The Story Behind the World-Famous Photograph of U.S. Marines Raising the American Flag During the Battle of Iwo Jima
Joe Rosenthal’s iconic photos from Iwo Jima helped the United States raise $26 billion for the war and served as the basis ...
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The story of a Detroiter in one of the most famous photos in history
One of the survivors, Harold Schultz, was misidentified in the photo as John Bradley until 2016. Schultz died in 1995, more than two decades before he was officially recognized as being a part of the ...
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A Black veteran from Ohio liberated a Nazi death camp when he was 19
Charles Benning, a Black man from Yellow Springs, Ohio, dropped out of high school to join the army during WWII. He later ...
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Operation Grenade: 80 Years Ago Hitler’s Western Wall Crumbles
My father Frank Sempa, Henry Kissinger, and 350,000 others took part in Operation Grenade, a massive and decisive Allied ...
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