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The deck of the PT-305 as the boat sits in retirement in The National World War II Museum in New Orleans. Doug Stewart photo A quarter of a century ago, The National World War II Museum opened in New ...
(Tribune News Service) — U.S. Army Sgt. Joe Harris sailed to earth on numerous missions as a member of a paratrooper ...
Sgt. Joe Harris was one of an elite group of Black paratroopers during World War II. He is being laid to rest today. He was ...
A birthday party for a 104-year-old St. Paul native with a Hawaiian theme is perfectly appropriate the more you get to know ...
On April 30, 1943, in the middle of World War II, a body ... a British military uniform. There was a briefcase strapped to his body containing British and American military secrets. The man was Major ...
He was a member of a segregated unit in the Pacific Northwest that fought forest fires set off by Japanese balloon bombs.
Joe Harris, believed to be the oldest surviving WWII paratrooper and a member of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black parachute ...
The man believed to be the oldest surviving World War II paratrooper has died Sgt. Joe Harris, believed to be the oldest surviving World War II paratrooper and a member of the U.S. Army’s first ...
When Blanchard found out he was receiving the Salute to Service award, he knew it was a team effort. “I was humbled because I ...
For the 80th Reunion of Honor, seven WWII veterans will return to Iwo Jima and be joined by defense secretaries from the US ...