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Navy divers reunite with B-25 Bomber
22+ min ago (196+ words) South Carolina Historic Aviation Foundation held an open house May 16 at Hamilton-Owens Airport and sponsored a reunion with the Navy divers who raised the B-25 bomber from Lake Greenwood in 1983. Pictured above with the B-25 bomber (Skunkie) from top are Navy divers…...
Lukas Dhont talks First World War drama "Coward: "This is a film that needs to speak to young people
1+ hour, 12+ min ago (498+ words) Source: Aline Boyen - the Reunion Lukas Dhont won the Camera d'Or in Cannes with his 2018 debut feature Girl, and picked up the Grand Prix with his next feature, 2022's Close. Now, the 34-year-old Belgian filmmaker is back in Competition with…...
Squalus salvage operation September 1939
1+ hour, 57+ min ago (54+ words) [Image 2 of 2] DVIDS Squalus salvage operation September 1939 [Image 2 of 2] Portsmouth Naval Shipyard /search/unit/NSYD-Portsmouth /rss/unit/7538 Squalus crew and Shipyard workers pumping out last of the water on Portsmouth Navy Yard on September 14, 1939. Wandank Aids in Saving Squalus Survivors...
Naval history comes to life aboard the Battleship USS Iowa
11+ hour, 55+ min ago (120+ words) San Pedro is home to the busiest port in the United States. But across from'those freighters'is a monument to one of the greatest eras in American military history." Battleship USS Iowa was the jewel of the Navy's fleet for decades,…...
Somerset WWII veteran Leo Desrosiers turns 100 on Memorial Day - AOL
3+ hour, 25+ min ago (161+ words) Somerset WWII veteran Leo Desrosiers turns 100 on Memorial Day AOL. com WWII veteran Leo Desrosiers of Somerset marked his 100th year at the AMF bowling lanes surrounded by family and friends. His birthday is Memorial Day. Matthew Perry's family rips into…...
84th anniversary of U-boat attack subject of presentation
24+ min ago (231+ words) Last month, The Ponte Vedra Inn and Club hosted a presentation by Scott A. Grant on the infamous Nazi U-boat attack on the SS Gulfamerica. April 10marked the 84thanniversary of the event, which took place less than four miles off the shore in…...
86th LRG Honors airmen, remembers Cuddeback's sacrifice 15 years later
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Swiss intel to unveil secret file of Nazi doctor Josef Mengele
7+ hour, 45+ min ago (621+ words) The secret file of the notorious Nazi doctor Josef Mengele will be unveiled to the public, the Swiss Federal Intelligence Service (NDB) announced last week. Known as the "Angel of Death," Mengele advanced the Nazi ideology's racial ideology and carried…...
New 10th Mountain Division exhibit open in Leadville
4+ hour, 52+ min ago (35+ words) Memorial Day Weekend is approaching and to honor the United States Army’s first and only winter warfare division forged in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, visit the new exhibit at the Healy House Museum & Dexter Cabin. .....
Meaford WW2 Pilot Honoured in Local Church
2+ hour, 10+ min ago (274+ words) An air force pilot from Meaford, whose fighter plane crashed in Scotland during WW2, was honoured in the town this week. A propeller blade rescued from Sgt George Stevenson's Hawker Hurricane was gifted by Leadhills Miners' Library in Scotland to his…...