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Michigan-Man Andrew Kach Receives Medal for Service in Vietnam

Ian Harvey
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Private first class Andrew Kach of the United States Army received a ceremony in Brighton Township recently, during which he was given the Bronze Star…

US Vietnam War veteran with cancer receives claims for exposure to Agent Orange in Okinawa

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Loaded: A U.S. Marine Corps helicopter sits by unidentified barrels at Naha Military Port in the late ’60s. | COURTESY OF MICHAEL JONES   Another…

Former Woman Who Worked at Auschwitz Accused of Prisoner Crueltly

Ian Harvey
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A woman now known as Gisela S. was a prison guard at the notorious internment camp in Auschwitz where she was responsible for the mistreatment…

Firing WWII Spitfire guns after they have been buried for 70 years in a bog!

Ian Harvey

  Six Browning machine guns have been discovered in 2011 buried near the Irish site of a 1941 Spitfire crash. Having been covered in peat…

WWI Allied Officers Feared Stray Dog and Cats Could Be Spies

Ian Harvey
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In preparation for the WWI centenary this month, the National Archives are releasing new documentation, one of which suggests a dog and two cats may…

Woman Sues University of Oklahoma over Stolen Artwork

Leone Meyer, a French woman, recently filed a lawsuit against the University Of Oklahoma (OU) in an attempt to recover a 128 year old piece…

Patrick Gallagher of the Vietnam War May Receive Honors Long After Death

Ian Harvey
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Lance Corporal Patrick Gallagher, Irish immigrant who served in the Marines during the Vietnam War, made himself a hero on July 18, 1966. He had…

Man Relates His Time as a Japanese Hostage in WWII

Ian Harvey

Rupert Wilkinson lived with his mother and sister in Manila during the 1942 period of Japanese invasion. With their father away at war as a…

Paravene, a Unique underwater mine-sweeping WWII Weapon, Found in East Mayo

The paravene, an underwater mine-sweeping device that was used in the Second World War by the British Army, has washed on the shores of Lake…

The Nazis, Auschwitz and the Man Named Wilhelm Brasse

He was forced by the Nazis to capture images that would haunt him throughout his lifetime…this is the story of the Nazis, the camp named Auschwitz and…

Three U Boats missing until 1985 when found in the Elbe U-boat bunker in Hamburg

Jack Beckett

Early in 1940 the Germans realized the vulnerability of their open top U-Boat enclosures and decided to start building massive bunkers to guard their precious…

Unexploded Bomb off the Coast of Crow Point Beach

The Royals Navy was asked to take care of an unexploded bomb from the Second World War that has washed up on the beach of…