On D-Day, Charles Shay was a 19-year-old Army medic. Now 99, he's about to take part in the 80th anniversary commemorations of the landings in Normandy. One does not have to stray far to glean that the galaxy of “Star Wars” is rife with WWII-based allegories. Tibor Rubin had a history of defying the Reaper. By Jon Guttman
2 weeks ago 'To me, it didn’t matter whether those were Chinese, Korean, Mongolian, whatever — they were the enemy.' The C54D-DC airplane — a military version of the WWII-era Douglas DC-4 aircraft — crashed outside Fairbanks Tuesday. No survivors were found. When asked if he could go back and extract the overwhelmed Marines from Guadalcanal, the 22-year-old Munro reportedly gave a confident, “Hell, yeah!” The duo beat out 100 other pairs from 23 Army installations and 46 battalions in a competition designed to “punch them in the face.” Floyd Gibbons made history when his dispatch got past the wartime censor. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. John E. McLauchlen Jr. was killed during a World War II bombing mission in Southeast Asia. Few subjects in military history are more loaded than public perception of Douglas MacArthur. By Jon Guttman
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