January Veteran Flag honors WWII Veteran Felix S. Witkowicz
New Bedford's Garden of Contemplation is named for decorated WWII Veteran Felix S. Witkowicz. Find out his story: ...
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You can now own a battle-scarred American flag that US troops planted on Omaha Beach on D-Day
A battle-scarred American flag believed to be the first planted ... Allied forces stormed the Normandy coast of France in World War II. The Dallas auction house said the flag was planted by ...
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To Mark Japan's Surrender at the End of World War II, This Navy Officer Raced Halfway Around the World With a Historic Flag in Tow
By the time World War II ended in September 1945 ... [that] was the first American flag hoisted over Japanese soil.” The ...
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San Francisco Names a Street For the Photographer Who Captured Marines Raising an American Flag at Iwo Jima
It became one of the most famous images from World War II, and it won the Pulitzer Prize ... and roughly 24,000 American soldiers were killed or injured—the highest number of single-action ...