Alexander Jefferson
On June 22, Alexander Jefferson (1921-2022), one of the last of the Tuskegee Airmen, passed away at the age of 100.
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WWII Airman Killed in New Guinea Mission Accounted for 80 Years Later
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that 26-year-old US Army Air Forces Staff Sergeant Eugene J. Darrigan of Wappingers Falls, New York, was identified and accounted for.
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“Angels of Okinawa”: The F4U Corsair
One of the best fighters of World War II, the F4U Corsair tormented the Japanese from Guadalcanal until the end of the war.
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"A fearsome attack on Shreveport, 76 years ago"
The Shreveport Times revisits its own coverage of the Louisiana Maneuvers.
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WWII Movies at the 2025 Academy Awards
The films A Real Pain and The Brutalist deal with how Jewish victims of the Holocaust moved to the United States and built new lives for themselves and their families.
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"Fly"
02/25/2023 | 2:00 PM - 3:45 PMFly tells the story of four African American Tuskegee Airmen and their fight on two fronts to achieve Double Victory during World War II.
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"Fly"
02/24/2023 | 7:00 PM - 8:45 PMFly tells the story of four African American Tuskegee Airmen and their fight on two fronts to achieve Double Victory during World War II.
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The Gen. Raymond E. Mason Distinguished Lecture Series on World War II--"Divisions: A New History of Racism and Resistance in America's World War II Military" by Thomas Guglielmo, PhD
02/23/2023 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PMAmerica's WWII military was a force of unalloyed good. While saving the world from Nazism, it also managed to unify a famously fractious American people. At least that's the story many Americans have long told themselves.
Divisions offers a decidedly different view.
