World War 2 News

13/10/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lQqToJoeEw

Have you ever wished that you could sit and watch Band of Brothers with one of the men from Easy Company? In this episode of American Artifact, we're pulling...

25/08/2024

🇺🇲 WWII uncovered: 🎂 BIRTHDAY EVENT: Happy 106th Birthday to US Navy Seabees Veteran Carl Phillips of Pennsylvania 🎂

Please join us at WWII uncovered in wishing US Navy Seabees Veteran Carl Phillips, of Lewisburg Pennsylvania, a most Happy 106th Birthday. Carl celebrated his landmark birthday with a grand party amongst family, friends and fellow veterans at the RiverWoods Senior community where he resides.

Carl, who was stationed in Guam and the Philippines, was married with a family when he left for the Pacific Theater. After the war Carl returned home to Erie and continued to work in the oil fields until later in life when he purchased a farm.

We wish you the most happiest of Birthdays Carl and honor your Service. You are and will always be a member of the Greatest Generation. Cheers!!




WWII uncovered ©️ description and photo sourced by The Lewisburg Daily Item news publication (Fair Use Photo)

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.