CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- "This was some tough stuff," reflected Vern Shmidt, a 99-year-old Valley veteran who served during the Battle of the Bulge. He was one of a handful of veterans who walked ...
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How amphibious vehicles changed Pacific battles in World War II
In the Pacific War, thousands of American Marines were dying before they ever reached the beach. This video tells the story of the LVT, an ungainly amphibious vehicle that quietly transformed island ...
Captain Richard J. Bong nicknamed his Lighting P-38 fighter plane Marg after his girlfriend, Marge Vattendahl. The World War II flying ace is shown with his plan at a New Guinea Air Base on March 31, ...
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Marine combat at Peleliu in the Pacific
Explore the intense combat faced by Marines during the Pacific’s Battle of Peleliu, highlighting strategy, sacrifice, and the ...
The World War II battle for Guam doesn’t get the attention that popular historians reserve for better-known Pacific epic fights on Okinawa or Iwo Jima, but author James Hallas is about to correct that ...
Marines hug the ground as they land on Iwo Jima, Feb. 19, 1945. (AP/INP Pool) What happens when a retired Navy captain and a military historian walk into a bar? That’s what Capt. William Toti and Seth ...
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