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Marc Garneau, First Canadian in Space, Dies at 76
His career took flight with a newspaper ad in Ottawa — the same city where he would later help steer the country under Prime ...
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Military history enthusiast wants Aberystwyth memorial for WWII RAF crew
A Ceredigion-based enthusiast is planning a memorial for the WWII RAF crew of Hudson V9127, with support from MP Ben Lake and ...
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You Won't Believe the WW2 Soldier Even His Own Army Feared!
Ernest “Smokey” Smith crawls through the rain-drenched night, his uniform caked with mud. It is October 21, 1944, and the bad-boy private and the rest of the Canadian Seaforth Highlanders have ...
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Remembering the Chicago Blackhawks’ World War II Veterans
Today is Memorial Day in the United States, a date when we honor and mourn all the U.S. military personnel who died while ...
Here's what to expect at the Army's 250th anniversary parade on Trump's birthday
The Army on Wednesday started loading up some of the tanks that will take to the streets of the nation's capital during the ...
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81 years later, a small Normandy town remembers the sacrifices of Pennsylvania’s 28th Division
The liberation of Gathemo, France, won’t be found in many history books about the Second World War. After all, it was one ...
A quiet Tiananmen Square anniversary displays China’s ability to suppress history
University students occupied this symbolically important site in the spring of 1989. Their calls for freedoms divided the ...
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81 years later, a small Normandy town remembers the sacrifices of U.S. soldiers, one from Milwaukee
The liberation of Gathemo, France, won’t be found in many history books about the Second World War. After all, it was one ...
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81 years later, a small Normandy town remembers the sacrifices of Pa.’s 28th Division
A small town in Normandy, France, is honoring the sacrifice of the 28th Division this weekend. Nine soldiers were killed in ...
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Europe’s last battlefield: Remembering Texel’s Georgian uprising
The flame-red Eierland lighthouse at the northern tip of Texel is the Dutch island’s most prominent landmark. On a dark night its light can be seen from Leeuwarden, 60 kilometres to the east, while by ...
WWII bomber crash left 11 dead and 'non-recoverable.' 4 are finally coming home
As the World War II bomber Heaven Can Wait was hit by enemy fire off the Pacific island of New Guinea on March 11, 1944, ...
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Decades after his death, a Jewish WWII hero is honored in Italy, with family of comrade present
He wore a Catholic medal on his uniform to conceal his Jewish ... leaving his studies at Columbia University to join the Canadian Air Force before the U.S. entered World War II. He transferred to the ...