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One More Gone
Cpl. Jack Schlegel, the highly decorated paratrooper who once had a drink with WWII Gen. George Patton, and survived capture by the Germans four times, has died at the age of 90 — just five days after visiting Normandy for the 70th anniversary of D-Day. “As much as it hurts to lose my dad I…
Read MoreNormandy: A Hero Returns
LtCol Oliver North and the Frontlines team joined 94-year-old Perozzi on what is likely to be his last journey back to the site of the D-Day invasion.
Read More93-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 MoreWorld 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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