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"in the company of heroes"

Dr. Guy LoFaro Lectures on the 82nd Airborne Division's Contribution during WWII

By SCOTT LYONS
28 January 2012

Historian and author Guy LoFaro, retired US Army officer, and former West Point professor and alumnus, recently spoke of the research behind his 2011 book The Sword of St. Michael: The 82nd Airborne Division in World War II at the North Atlanta-area independent bookseller ‘Acworth Bookstore’.  Full Story »

"With the Old Breed" Conversations of Wartime with a WWII-era US Marine

By SCOTT LYONS
21 January 2012

I had the recent privilege of learning World War II history first-hand from Mr. and Mrs. H. Paul Bailey, through in-person interviews. Paul was a U.S. Marine from 1943 to 1946, who fought in the same division, 1st Marine Division (3/7), on Okinawa as Eugene Sledge (3/5), author of With the Old Breed and subject of HBO’s ‘The Pacific’.  Full story »

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WWII NEWS: THE TELEGRAPH

Wartime population faced 'eating plankton to avert food shortages'

Britain's wartime population would have been fed plankton by scientists under proposals to avert critical food shortages, newly discovered documents have disclosed.

Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler a fan of yoga

Heinrich Himmler, the infamous Nazi leader of the SS, was enthralled with eastern mysticism and always carried an ancient text on yoga wherever he went, a new book has claimed.

Hitler had son with French teen

Adolf Hitler had a son with a French teenager while serving as a soldier during the First World War, according to new evidence.

World War Two: air ace in an unmarked grave found

The body of a decorated flying ace who was killed in his first week of war has been found in an unmarked grave in France after 71 years.

Adolf Eichmann exhibition reveals how he was captured by Israeli agents

An exhibition telling the story of how Israeli agents captured Adolf Eichmann has opened in Tel Aviv.

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