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Lake Murray, South Carolina: Where Doolittle’s Warbirds Came to Roost
.image-13743693 { max-height: 100%; --left: 49.80%; --top: 64.10%; } As the sky turns lavender-pink at the close of this gorgeous summer day, I spy two birds flitting across Lake Murray’s shimmery...
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Remembering Rosie the Riveter in Richmond, California
The Bay Area port city recalls an era of can-do American spirit. I stroll alongside the SS Red Oak Victory, a World War II ammunition vessel being restored in California’s Richmond harbor, trying to...
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Touring France’s Limousin Region, Where Maquis Fighters Once Battled the...
In 1944, the Nazis attempted to vanquish Resistance leader Georges Guingouin’s rural guerrilla force in the Battle of Mont-Gargan. Mont-Gargan in the heart of France is a peaceful place, its...
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Taking Stock of General MacArthur’s Legacy in Norfolk, Virginia
Douglas MacArthur lived all over the world, but his family history brought him back to the Chesapeake. I learned as a child that Douglas MacArthur was a hero. He had, after all, rescued my mother,...
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Can You Spot the Hidden Symbols in DC’s World War II Memorial?
.image-13790617 { max-height: 100%; --left: 75.27%; --top: 41.48%; } The rain has stopped, though steel-gray clouds hover above the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., where nine elderly men...
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At Eight-Years-Old This Girl Survived the Japanese Occupation of the...
.image-13795376 { max-height: 100%; --left: 56.49%; --top: 30.17%; } Leanne Blinzler Noe was eight years old and living in the Philippines with her family when the Japanese attacked the islands on the...
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You Might Be Surprised to Learn What This Resort Hotel Did During World War II
.image-13796215 { max-height: 100%; --left: 49.44%; --top: 32.55%; } Rounding the bend past the guard gate, I catch my breath when I spy the Greenbrier resort’s main building. The Georgian-style...
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