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“I don’t recall panicking” as German bombs fell during the Blitz, 98-year-old Sally Hatch Keithley-McCulley told Melinda Henneberger.
Friends, family and veterans gathered to send 18 WWII veterans on an honor flight for the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Hosted by Honor Flight Bluegrass, the veterans had the opportunity to attend ...
Fresno-area vet shares his WWII story. Joshua Tehee. October 27, 2022 at 5:30 AM ... on the 80th anniversary of the sinking of the ship, while visiting the Veterans Memorial Museum in Fresno on ...
Audie Leon Murphy (20 June 1925 – 28 May 1971) [1] was an American soldier, actor, and songwriter. He was widely celebrated as the most decorated American combat soldier of World War II, [4] and has been described as the most highly decorated enlisted soldier in U.S. history.
The people listed below are, or were, the last surviving members of notable groups of World War II veterans, as identified by reliable sources. About 70 million people fought in World War II between 1939 and 1945. Background shading indicates the individual is still living Last survivors Veteran Birth Death Notability Service Allegiance Aimé Acton 1917 or 1918 13 December 2020 (aged 102) Last ...
Mauldin retired in 1991. The pair reappeared in a 1998 Veterans Day strip of the popular comic Peanuts, using art that had been copied out of a 1944 Willie and Joe panel. [10] Charles M. Schulz, creator of Peanuts and himself a World War II Infantry combat veteran, was a personal friend of Mauldin's and considered him a hero. [11]
World War II veteran Richard Stewart, 102, was accompanied by Zac Cromley, a volunteer companion, in June 2023 while Stewart was on his first trip back to Normandy since he landed there in July 1944.
Alan Eugene Magee (January 13, 1919 – December 20, 2003) was a United States airman during World War II who survived a 22,000-foot (6,700 m) fall from his damaged B-17 Flying Fortress. [1] He was featured in the 1981 Smithsonian Magazine as one of the 10 most amazing survival stories of World War II.