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Inflatable Tanks, Special Effects: World War Two 'Ghost Army' Troops Receive Top US Medal
They used actors and various tricks across Europe to mislead the Nazi German army into sending troops to the wrong locations, as per the news outlet.
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Mob Leader's WW II Medal Of Freedom To Be Auctioned In California
A Medal of Freedom awarded to a mobster by then-US President Harry S. Truman is set to be auctioned California. Meyer "The Little Man" Lansky was a leader of the National Crime Syndicate that was responsible of many murders in 1930s and 1940s.
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After Government Refuses to Acquire Jumbo Majumdar's Medals, Air Force Buys Them
With days left for a deadline to expire, the Indian Air Force (IAF) has used its internal funds to acquire the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) and the war medals of the World War II veteran Wing Commander Jumbo Majumdar from the UK-based auction house Morton and Eden.
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Dambusters Pilot Halts Medal Sale After Peer's Donation
The last surviving pilot from World War II's legendary Dambusters mission cancelled plans to sell his medals today after a wealthy British peer intervened, the auction house handling the sale said.
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Conman Steals London World War II Veteran's Army Medals
Police say a London conman has stolen the military service medals of a 92-year-old British Army veteran of World War II on the 70th anniversary of D-Day.
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Seven decades later, Purple Heart given to daughter
Seven decades after a Missouri soldier died in World War II, the daughter he never met is about to get his Purple Heart medal, along with the emotional letter her father wrote just weeks after her birth.
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Long-missing WWII medal to be awarded
Hyla Merin grew up without a father and for a long time never knew why. Her mother never spoke about the Army officer who died before Hyla was born. The scraps of information she gathered from other relatives were hazy: 2nd Lt. Hyman Markel was a rabbi's son, brilliant at mathematics, the brave winner of a Purple Heart who died sometime in 1945. As...
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1948 Olympics: Fourth gold medal healed wounds of partition
It was a wonder that India managed to field a team for the 1948 Olympics which were held on the conclusion of the World War II and a year after the traumatic partition that threw the sub-continent into a massive turmoil.
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Olympics History: 1952 HELSINKI
The Cold War games. The Soviet Union participated for the first time after a 40 year absence, in a country they had invaded twice during World War II, and Germany and Japan were allowed back. Nine of their 22 gold medals came in gymnastics. The Soviets and their eastern block allies stayed in a separate village.
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Inflatable Tanks, Special Effects: World War Two 'Ghost Army' Troops Receive Top US Medal
They used actors and various tricks across Europe to mislead the Nazi German army into sending troops to the wrong locations, as per the news outlet.
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Mob Leader's WW II Medal Of Freedom To Be Auctioned In California
A Medal of Freedom awarded to a mobster by then-US President Harry S. Truman is set to be auctioned California. Meyer "The Little Man" Lansky was a leader of the National Crime Syndicate that was responsible of many murders in 1930s and 1940s.
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After Government Refuses to Acquire Jumbo Majumdar's Medals, Air Force Buys Them
With days left for a deadline to expire, the Indian Air Force (IAF) has used its internal funds to acquire the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) and the war medals of the World War II veteran Wing Commander Jumbo Majumdar from the UK-based auction house Morton and Eden.
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Dambusters Pilot Halts Medal Sale After Peer's Donation
The last surviving pilot from World War II's legendary Dambusters mission cancelled plans to sell his medals today after a wealthy British peer intervened, the auction house handling the sale said.
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Conman Steals London World War II Veteran's Army Medals
Police say a London conman has stolen the military service medals of a 92-year-old British Army veteran of World War II on the 70th anniversary of D-Day.
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Seven decades later, Purple Heart given to daughter
Seven decades after a Missouri soldier died in World War II, the daughter he never met is about to get his Purple Heart medal, along with the emotional letter her father wrote just weeks after her birth.
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Long-missing WWII medal to be awarded
Hyla Merin grew up without a father and for a long time never knew why. Her mother never spoke about the Army officer who died before Hyla was born. The scraps of information she gathered from other relatives were hazy: 2nd Lt. Hyman Markel was a rabbi's son, brilliant at mathematics, the brave winner of a Purple Heart who died sometime in 1945. As...
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1948 Olympics: Fourth gold medal healed wounds of partition
It was a wonder that India managed to field a team for the 1948 Olympics which were held on the conclusion of the World War II and a year after the traumatic partition that threw the sub-continent into a massive turmoil.
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Olympics History: 1952 HELSINKI
The Cold War games. The Soviet Union participated for the first time after a 40 year absence, in a country they had invaded twice during World War II, and Germany and Japan were allowed back. Nine of their 22 gold medals came in gymnastics. The Soviets and their eastern block allies stayed in a separate village.
