Hero nurse among 10 WW2 women being commemorated
A 27-year-old nurse who died at sea while trying to save wounded men during World War Two is being commemorated in a new ...
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Hero nurse among 10 WW2 women being commemorated
Both nurses helped to bring the 75 wounded men on the ship to safety, but were below deck when it sank. They were the only women out of 22,442 people under British command to die in the 12-week ...
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'Charred Bodies, Eerie Sky': Japanese Survivors Recall Deadly WWII Air Raid
Five months before the United States dropped atomic weapons on Japan's Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the nighttime raid on March ...
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Lee Miller, the photojournalist who brought dignity to those who suffered during WWII
The photos she took and the words she wrote in ‘Vogue’ magazine were and remain an indictment of the Holocaust ...
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'Eerie' sky, charred bodies: 80 years since Tokyo WWII firestorm
On her sixth birthday 80 years ago, Shizuko Nishio clung to her mother as US B-29 bombers started a firestorm that turned ...
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‘Eerie’ sky, charred bodies: WWII survivors recall 1945 Tokyo firebombing that killed 100,000 — so why is it overshadowed by Hiroshima?
On her sixth birthday 80 years ago, Shizuko Nishio clung to her mother as US B-29 bombers started a firestorm that turned ...
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Finding love at war: Book tells woman’s story as war bride in World War II
John D’Agostino of the Dunkirk OBSERVER gave me the green light to go out and get stories of local veterans for the In Honor ...
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'Eerie' sky, charred bodies: 80 years since Tokyo WWII firestorm
Five months before the United States dropped atomic weapons on Japan's Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the nighttime raid on March 9-10, 1945 was World War II's deadliest ... and a nurse stayed, but ...
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As world politics transform, a Lexington writer thinks about what we can learn from WWII | Opinion
I’ve written three novels about World War II and, as a result ... and leader of a resistance group in the war. The trained nurse and social worker created the secret Group 2000 in 1941 to ...
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Video: Survivors recall horror of Tokyo firebombing 80 years on
The raid, one of the deadliest in World War II, killed at least 80,000 people ... Tragically, Nishio's 19-year-old cousin and a nurse who had stayed behind to help in the shelter were among ...