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Amazing America: The 'forgotten 26' buried at Fort Custer National Cemetery

In our Amazing America series, we tell the story of how thousands of German prisoners of war worked for the Allies in Michigan during World War II.
The Record Herald

Waynesboro native died when tanker Atlantic Sun was torpedoed in WWII

Waynesboro native Carl Woodrow Schrader was a cook on the Atlantic Sun when it sank after being torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II.

Letters from a WWII soldier to his sweetheart offer an intimate picture of love during wartime

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Highlights from a trove of more than 200 love letters that tell the story of a couple’s courtship and marriage during World War II are now on display digitally through the ...
Minot Daily News

ND’s oldest living World War II veteran turns 109

Ray Curtis, North Dakota’s oldest living World War II veteran and a retired farmer, is celebrating his 109th birthday today, Feb. 11. Curtis, who served in the U.S. Army for five years, including ...

Held captive in their own country during World War II, Japanese Americans used nature to cope with their unjustified imprisonment

Incarcerated in rough barracks surrounded by barbed wire and armed soldiers, Japanese Americans made functional and beautiful ...
Franklin County Free Press

LOCAL MARINER LOST IN WWII U-BOAT SINKING OF OIL TANKER OFF NEWFOUNDLAND

The American motor tanker MS Atlantic Sun was enroute to the US on February 2, 1943 from Liverpool, England after delivering over 156,000 barrels of high-octane gasoline for the Allied […] ...