World War 2 News

15/07/2024

It's good to know that the leftist-communist propaganda news isn't at all biased...

25/06/2024

Another 181 names, including those of 24 Okinawans and 157 from elsewhere in Japan, were added Wednesday to the Cornerstone of Peace at Okinawa Peace Memorial Park in time for a ceremony Sunday.

25/06/2024

U.S. Army WWII Veteran, Ceo Bauer, and childhood survivor of D-Day, Danielle “Dany” Patrix Boucherie, ride in a WWII Jeep on Utah Beach as part of D Day 80, June 7, 2024, Normandy, France. Ceo Bauer was assigned to the 377th Regiment of the 95th Infantry Division, soon immortalized as the Iron M...

25/06/2024

A procession of vehicles drove by Rice's Flagler Beach home to honor the Marine veteran who fought at Guadalcanal.

25/06/2024

According to prison camp and other historical records, Murphy died Oct. 28, 1942.

25/06/2024

A Fife family has made a special pilgrimage to visit the French gravesite of a relative lost in the Second World War.

25/06/2024

World War II soldier George Davies has returned home to Oregon to be decorated with military honors and be buried by his family nearly 81 years after he was pronounced missing in action in Europe. …

25/06/2024

The story of how Nathan Baskind’s remains were found after 79 years is part detective novel, part “hand of God,” and part tale of redemption.

25/06/2024

https://taskandpurpose.com/history/marines-airstrip-peleliu/

Eight decades after U.S. Marines and Army soldiers took the small island, the aged airstrip has a new role in the modern Pacific theater.

28/04/2024

🇺🇲WWII uncovered: 🎂 Happy Heavenly Birthday to Wild Bill Guarnere of Easy Company ♠️

Please join us at WWII uncovered in honoring Bill Guarnere on the Anniversary of his 101st Birthday.

Staff Sergeant William J. "Wild Bill" Guarnere Sr., of Philadelphia Pennsylvania, enlisted in the US Army Airborne on August 31, 1942. At 19 years old, Bill entered the service as a Private and began training at Camp Toccoa, Georgia. He soon became a NCO with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army.

Bill Guarnere was honored with the Silver Star, three Bronze Star Medals and two Purple Heart decorations.

After the war Bill returned to Philadelphia. In 1945 he married Frances "Frannie" Peca and the couple had two sons. Wild Bill and Babe Heffron remained the best of friends for the rest of their lives. Bill Guarnere passed away on March 8, 2014 at the age of 90. He lies in rest at the Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery in Springfield Pennsylvania. Lest We Forget.




WWII uncovered©️ original photos sourced by the Wild Bill Guarnere Memorial Fund. Description: Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends: Two WWII Paratroopers from the Original Band of Brothers Tell Their Story" by William “Wild Bill” Guarnere and Edward “Babe” Heffron (Fair Use Photos)

28/04/2024

28/04/2024

Jim "P*e Wee" Martin, a paratrooper of G Company, 506th PIR, was a man who became a legendary member of the WWII veteran community in his later years. Quiet ...

16/04/2024

This was the B-24 Liberator, Little Warrior. Nine of the crew died in the crash. The co-pilot Sydney Benson, looking at the camera, parachuted from the plane, but murdered as a POW, a short time after landing. He was 21.

https://aircrewremembered.com/hansen-john-h.html

11/04/2024

The peaceful French countryside around La Fiere Bridge erupted into a desperate firefight on June 6, 1944.

03/04/2024

April 1, 1945, Dateline: Okinawa, Pacific Theater.

31/03/2024

On March 19th, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves signed into law that the 4th Thursday of every March will now be recognized as Tuskegee Airmen Day throughout the state, honoring the valiant service of the members of the Tuskegee Airmen. “Well the Tuskegee Airmen were men that were allowed to prove...

31/03/2024

Myron Petrakis, 101, and Marvin Elfman, 97, were both minesweepers at the tail end of World War II.

30/03/2024

A WWII bomber copilot never made it home to his bride—but she kept his love letters for life.

Military service has always been a big part of my family’s heritage—and no doubt many others can relate.

30/03/2024

EHS Press Release Maleeya Mecham and Gideon Mecham of Huntington, are going on a family trip to Europe in early summer. The trip will focus on WWII history and battlefields. The trip will include London, England; Munich, Germany and the Dachau Concentration Camp; Switzerland; Colmar, France; Luxembo...

30/03/2024

The marine sanctuary says its "shipwrecks serve as time capsules of our nation's maritime history."

30/03/2024

Welcome Home U.S. Army Cpl. Frank V. Benak. Thank Youy for Your Service and Ultimate Sacrifice. May You Be at Peace.

A Japanese unit attacked defensive positions in northern Papua New Guinea. Benak, 24, as reported as missing in action on Dec. 5, while on a combat patrol near Buna Creek.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Cpl. Frank V. Benak, 24, of Scottsville, Michigan, killed during World War II, was accounted for on February 2, 2024.In

30/03/2024

One of America’s only women war correspondents reports on the liberation of the concentration camps, Soviet and American troops meeting at Torgau, and Hitler’s burning villa in Berchtesgaden

30/03/2024

Happy 100th Birthday, Mr. Howard Coffey, and Thank You for Your Service.

Howard was awarded two Bronze Stars, for actions in the Battle of the Bulge, clearing mines and b***y traps in advance of troop movements.

Howard Coffey served in the U.S. Army in the 289th Combat Engineers, in the European Theater during World War II. Born in Cotula, Campbell County, TN, Howard will celebrate his

30/03/2024

Thank You for Your Service Mr. -Weldon McClane.

Weldon, 99, was a Private First Class, combat engineer who landed on the beaches of Normandy during the D-day Invasion.

To thank him and honor him for his service, McClane took to the sky in a restored WWII-era open-cockpit bi-plane.

30/03/2024

A memorial honoring a U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division offensive in World War II to break through German lines in a series of battles in 1943 and 1944 was unveiled this week.

30/03/2024

Like grumpy old men, some bombs become more prone to angry outbursts as they age.

30/03/2024

Shoichi Yokoi lived in the jungles of Guam from 1944 until 1972.

30/03/2024

A relative of an airman who was killed in a World War Two tragedy has been located in Windsor, Ont. The entire seven-man crew of the Halifax bomber died when it crashed on Cleeve Common near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire in southwest England.