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George Mendonsa claimed to be the sailor kissing a woman in Times Square — a photo that defined the jubilation of Victory Over Japan Day. The two had never met.
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A public viewing for Richard Overton, who was the nation's oldest man and World War II veteran, will be held Friday.
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A 26-year-old sailor from Fort Worth killed during the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor will be buried in Dallas on the 77th anniversary of the attack.The…
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The Madras Maiden is all gleaming metal with red markings when it pulls up onto the tarmac at Meacham Airport in Fort Worth. Up near the cockpit, a…
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Many of the incarcerated were farmers, coerced to work the land in the camps. The food they grew was meant for the incarcerated but camp administrators sold it on the open market. Resistance ensued.
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This weekend marks the 75th anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt's executive order that led to the internment of Japanese-Americans. We hear from two people who were interned when they were children.
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Long before Winston Churchill was the leader who got Britain through World War II, he was a 20-something trying to make a name for himself as a…
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This month marks the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Japan. Two atomic bombs named ‘Little Boy’ and ‘Fat Man’ were dropped on the cities of Hiroshima…
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Saturday is the 71st anniversary of D-Day. That’s when Allied troops stormed the shores of Normandy, in a turning point battle that claimed almost 20,000…
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Seventy years after escaping death, a group of holocaust survivors got together over the weekend in Dallas with military veterans. The Daughters of World…
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Crystal City was once home to the only internment camp in Texas. Known as the "quiet passage," immigrants from Germany, Italy and Japan would settle in…
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During the Great Depression, photographers fanned out across the country to capture the United States. Some of them visited Texas, snapping thousands of…