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Major Richard Bong's Medal of Honor
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Lieutenant Richard Miles McCool, Jr's Medal of Honor
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Staff Sergeant Walter David Ehlers's Medal of Honor
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The 1941 NKVD Prison Massacres in Western Ukraine
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