Military
93-Year-Old WWII Vet To Parachute Into Normandy — Again
On a winding road, past a stand of sycamores outside his Ohio home, CBS News found Jim Martin, 70 years after his first trip to France. Jim was one of the first Americans in combat in Europe. “They called us the tip of the spear,” he says. Jim was a private in the 101st Airborne,…
Read MoreMad Jack
The first thing the Nazi garrison on VÃ¥gsøy Island, Norway, would have heard when the British No. 3 Commando battalion landed on December 27, 1941, was the sudden blaring drone of bagpipes. One commando stood at the fore of the landing craft, facing the impending battle and playing the peppy, martial “March of the Cameron…
Read MorePlate of Honey
“Think of America like a plate of honey,†Tim says. “And the jihadists are more like bees.†For over a decade, those bees have flocked to the nearest honey—our military in Afghanistan and Iraq. Will the bees follow when the troops come home?
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World War 2! Tracing The History And Weapons Used
A Look back at some brief World War 2 history World War II (WWII) is the long bloody battle that most believe started when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. However, many argue WWII began with the invasion of Manchuria by Japan on September 18, 1931. Nonetheless, on October 2, 1935, four years before…
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