These World War I inventions made life easier during—and after—the war. While World War I redrew political borders and introduced modern weaponry such as poison gas, machine guns and tanks, it also spurred the development of practical innovations.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WJAR) — A New Bedford soldier who went missing during World War II has been identified and will be buried in Massachusetts on the 82nd anniversary of his disappearance. U.S. Army Pfc. William A. Gervais Jr., 28, was accounted for…
Gila Herald Staff Reports SAFFORD — The Safford City–Graham County Library invites the community to explore a powerful piece of history this week by hosting an official opening reception for the prestigious traveling exhibition, Americans and the Holocaust. The opening…
I recently attended the 36th Annual World Federation of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants Conference, in Philadelphia – perhaps one of the last gatherings to include several Holocaust survivors. Those survivors were very young children when the Nazi persecution of European Jews…
Some of those family members, including young children, perished in the Lety camp; others were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, never to return. Those who survived Nazi persecution never returned to Nezdice permanently. In 1960, in memory of their loved ones, the families…
On the third day of Gettysburg, after nearly all of the fighting had been done, the Confederate and Union armies sat exhausted, intently watching the other. Far out on the extreme left flank of the Union line, General Kilpatrick was…
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) (.mil) WASHINGTON â The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced today that U.S Gala, 21, of Lynn, Massachusetts, killed during World War II, was accounted for Sept Galaâs family received their full briefing on…
Posted By: David Bell November 4, 2026 SAFFORD — The Safford City-Graham County Library is inviting the public to the opening of its newest exhibition, “Americans and the Holocaust.” Dr. Ettie Zilber brings the traveling exhibition from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum,…
What does it mean to be a second-generation Holocaust survivor? For Lior Marom, it’s being raised by a father haunted by his earliest childhood memory — digging in the snow for frozen potatoes left behind by a farmer deep in the…
The remains of U.S. Army Cpl. Byron F. Beard, Jr., 23, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, will be interred Nov. 11 at Holston View Cemetery in Weber City, near his hometown of Fort Blackmore, Virginia.
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