Ending an eight-decade wait
When Margery Hop Wong bade her older brother goodbye in 1943, she was just a 12-year-old girl who loved it when he took her ...
Poughkeepsie Journal2d
After 80 years, a WWII airman from Wappingers has been accounted for. How it happened
The 26-year-old U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sergeant, Eugene J. Darrigan — a World War II airman who was a resident of the ...
salisburypost3d
‘I survived World War II. I’m thankful for that’ — Veteran nearing 100 recounts his life
World War II veterans are described as “The Greatest Generation” because of their courage, patriotism and strength in the ...
El País in English3d
The SS nursery: Novelist recreates the Nazi maternity wards where babies were raised to swell the ranks of Himmler’s order
Belgian writer Caroline De Mulder, in a fascinating and terrifying work, describes the workings of the Lebensborn households ...
Military.com4d
The Son of an American Legion Founder Led a Guerrilla Campaign of Terror Against the Nazis
By today's standards, Eric Fisher Wood Sr. would probably not have joined the National Guard, let alone join two armies to ...
The Saturday Paper4d
The race to recover the remains of Australian WWII servicemen
The remains of thousands of Australian servicemen who died in the Pacific Theatre during World War II have yet to be ...