NewsBeat SocialTag: world war ii
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WWII Airmen Take to the Sky Once Again
10/27/14 10:48 AM PST
As part of the WWII AirPower Expo in New Orleans, three veterans flew in the iconic B-29 Superfortress
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Two World War II Ships Discovered off North Carolina Coast
10/24/14 10:15 AM PST
NOAA researchers have discovered a U-576 submarine and the freighter Bluefields just 30 miles off the North Carolina Coast
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Former POWs Visit Camp Omori
10/20/14 2:33 PM PST
Seven former prisoners of war visited the site of their former camp in Japan on an invitation by the Japanese government to promote reconciliation
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Hawaii Considers Moving Homeless Population
09/11/14 9:03 AM PST
Hawaii's homeless may be shuttled away from the front yards of Waikiki resorts to the site of a World War II internment camp
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American Soldier, Missing Since WWII, Identified
09/04/14 3:45 PM PST
The remains of a soldier missing since a World War II battle in the western Pacific has been identified
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WWII Bomb Found Near Frankfurt Airport
08/21/14 9:57 AM PST
Officials were called to diffuse a World War II-era bomb, found near a Frankfurt airport
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U.S. Naval Ship Sunk During World War II Identified
08/20/14 2:43 PM PST
World War II wreck of USS Houston, dubbed the "Galloping Ghost," is found in Southeast Asia
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Theodore Van Kirk: 1921-2014
07/30/14 3:52 PM PST
The last surviving crewman of the U.S. Enola Gay, that dropped the first atomic bomb of World War II, dies of natural causes
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Olympian, War Hero Louis Zamperini Dies at 97
07/03/14 2:01 PM PST
Louis Zamperini, an Olympian and World War II hero whose life is the subject of the upcoming film, "Unbroken," has died at the age of 97
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Sad Milestone: Global Refugee Count Tops 50M
06/20/14 3:41 PM PST
The number of people living as refugees from war or persecution exceeded 50 million in 2013 for the first time since World War II
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Remains of WWII Japanese Soldiers Washed from Graves
06/12/14 3:22 PM PST
The skeletal remains of what are believed to be Japanese soldiers from World War II have been washed from their graves on a remote Pacific island
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World War II Veteran Finally 'Earns' Wings
05/27/14 3:01 PM PST
92-year-old veteran Ralph Mayville, who was trained as a paratrooper but never had to jump out of a plane, makes his inaugural leap and earns his wings