Jake Larson, a WWII veteran who became a TikTok star
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The U-505 submarine served 12 patrols and sank eight enemy boats before the US Navy captured it. The U-boat is now on display at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science and Industry. Visitors can walk through its control room and bunks that held space for its crew of 59 men.
Sergeant Joseph Drake received long-overdue honors on Monday at the Wayne County Courthouse for his WWII Army Ranger service
Carlsbad’s Nancy Stratford, now 106, is the last survivor of the 25 American women pilots who served in the Royal Air Force’s Air Transport Auxiliary
A Woonsocket native who was wounded driving a boat full of soldiers onto Omaha Beach on D-Day will receive an award the World War II Foundation.
World War II veteran and longtime Elsmere resident Ray Firmani, whose life was chronicled and celebrated in the book Against All Odds: The Ray Firmani Story, has died.
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In the bitter winter of 1941, British military prisoners in Nazi-occupied Germany huddled around a Monopoly set, dazzled by the contents that awaited them. They didn’t pluck Community Chest cards.
Considered an essential piece of kit for every Marine, a wide variety of private-purchase and standard-issue knives were pressed into service in every theater of the war to tackle tasks ranging from hand-to-hand combat to everyday chores.
Eighty years after a U.S. airman went missing in World War II, his family has received a token to remember him by.
Photos show the USS Laffey still sitting upright on the seafloor with much of her bow and midsection intact despite more than 80 years underwater.
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US Weekly on MSN102-Year-Old TikTok Star and World War II Veteran ‘Papa Jake’ Larson DiesWorld War II veteran Jake Larson, better known online as “Papa Jake,” has died. The social media star, who attracted 1.2 million followers on TikTok, was 102 “years young,” according to his granddaughter,
Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers.