Category: Featured Articles
Posts about articles from the main part of the WWII Archives that have been featured for their content
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To view the full article about Joe McPhail, click here. It was a clear twilight sunrise at 1330 hours on 12 April, 1945, when 79 years ago 14 F4U Corsairs took off from Kadena Airfield on Okinawa. Just 11 days earlier, a massive armada invaded the Japanese occupied island as part of the great Island…
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The story of A Company of the 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment, of the 29th Infantry Division, is a horrid one. We all got a glimpse of what happened with the beginning scene of the movie Saving Private Ryan, where men of the 29th Division could be seen marching up with the Rangers storming Omaha, where in reality…