When Dad's Army manned Uphill outpost
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Backs to the wall! Members of Weston Home Guard in an invasion exercise. TWO logbooks, much worn and grubby by frequent handling and their pencilled entries so faded in places as to be undecipherable, have been ...
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Maj. Sean Stinchon stands at the base of Hill 362A and scans a map drawn up by Navy Seabees in 1948 that is deeply creased and covered in reddish brown dirt. The map shows a labyrinth of caves and tunnels that runs through the brush-covered hill like the cross-section of an ant colony.
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Chinook helicopters dropped Capt. Don Canterna's company of soldiers on the dusty outskirts of Musa Qala as evening fell. Loaded down with weapons, food, and water, his men walked through the night.
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Union flag-bedecked Land Rovers of the Black Watch regiment stand ready for deployment. Photograph: Warrant Officer Giles Penfound/PA.
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Â· Record deployment of paratroopersÂ· Country may be sliding to civil war
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Blog: Even before getting to the battlefield, high-tech upgrades for ground troops must maneuver through tough political terrain.
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Edward "Willie" Carman wanted a ticket out of town, and the Army provided it. Raised in the projects by a single mother in this blighted, old industrial steel town outside Pittsburgh, the 18-year-old saw the U.S. military as an opportunity.
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To stem the growing Taliban resurgence in remote Afghanistan, US military leaders win over village elders with local development projects.
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For two centuries, tens of thousands of men from the mountains of Nepal have been recruited by the British army, earning reputations worldwide as unusually tough and brave soldiers.
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Staff Sgt. David Rogers of Ramstein's 568th Security Forces Squadron had a little explaining to do to his son, 'Little David.' 'I'm trying to explain to a 2-year-old where daddy is going,' Rogers said, as he ...
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In 1942, 8-year-old Moshe Bar-Yuda walked hand-in-hand with his father to a collection point in his hometown in Slovakia and watched him being shipped off to a Nazi labor camp. The boy never saw him again, and for 66 years was left to wonder about his father's fate.
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my father was in World War II, as a Navy radarman in the Aleutian Islands. And my mother was a county president of the American Legion Auxiliary.
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By Susan Erler, The Times, Munster, Ind.  Dec. 20--PORTAGE -- A mountainous region of upstate New York was Steve  Winters' playground growing up.
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The next generation of dad's words prompting action.
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Ancestry.com is unveiling more than 90 million U.S. war records from the first English settlement at Jamestown in 1607 through the Vietnam War's end in 1975
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Hard to believe, but the chair lift wasn't the main way of getting to the top of a mountain for skiers during the World War II era. Some 70 years ago, there was the shovel handle, rope tow, j-bar, and even the skimobile lift.
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Sixty years ago, Andrew Tokar, 82, of Brownsville, was on the move in Luxembourg with the 28th Division, 109th Infantry trying to stay a step ahead of the advancing German army.