Last Iwo Jima flag-raiser dies at 82
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Raymond Jacobs, believed to be the last surviving member of the group of Marines photographed during the original U.S. flag-raising on Iwo Jima during World War II, has died at age 82.
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By Steve Vantreese, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Jun. 16-- -- Doug Travis' 60 years of service as a conservation educator ended the way he always said they would.   He died.
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Comedian Joey Bishop, the last surviving member of the super-hip team of entertainers known as the Rat Pack and led by Frank Sinatra, has died at age 89, his longtime friend and publicist, Warren Cowan, said on Thursday.
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Four decades after disappearing on patrol  in South Korea, U.S. Army Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins looks  set to surrender on Saturday at an American military base in  Japan to face charges that he deserted to the communist North.
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As Tokyo Correspondent Mark Simkin reports, the remains of Shosei Koda were found in Baghdad. &quot;The decapitated body was wrapped in an American flag.
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The Pearl Harbor Survivors Association has decided this yearÂs anniversary gathering will be its last in Hawaii.
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CAMP ZAMA, Japan  - U.S. Army Sergeant Charles  Jenkins gave himself up to American military authorities  Saturday to face charges that he deserted to communist North  Korea four decades ago while on patrol in South Korea.
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Former Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa, whose career stretched from Japan's defeat in World War Two through the 1990s "lost decade" of economic stagnation, died on Thursday at the age of 87, his office said.
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Eddie Adams, an Associated Press photojournalist famous for his photo of a communist guerrilla being executed in a Saigon street, died Sept. 19 in Manhattan of complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease). He was 71.
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Japan has returned to using the prewar name for the island of Iwo Jima &#151; site of one of World War II's most horrific battles &#151; at the urging of its original inhabitants, who want to reclaim an identity they say has been hijacked by high-profile movies like Clint Eastwood's "Letters from Iwo Jima."
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The Japanese island of Iwo Jima, scene of a fierce World War II battle, regains its original name.
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U.S. Army Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins  was to surrender on Saturday at an American base in Japan to  face charges that he deserted to communist North Korea on a  wintry night four decades ago while on patrol in South Korea.
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An 80-year-old veteran of World War II was killed Thursday morning when a van backed over him as he prepared to march in a Veterans Day parade.
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Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, a Polish Second  World War hero who spent his life fighting for an independent  democratic Poland, died late on Thursday aged 91.
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SADO ISLAND, Japan  - A former U.S. army sergeant  who deserted to North Korea four decades ago left a U.S.  military base near Tokyo on Tuesday to head for a new life with  his family in his Japanese wife's home town.
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Paul Goodyear, 86, of Casa Grande, Ariz., shows where he was stationed as a signalman aboard the USS Oklahoma after the dedication ceremony for teh ships new exhibit at the USS Arizona Memoal Museum in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Monday, Dec. 6. 2004.
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NEW YORK -- Hank Bauer, the tough ex-Marine who set a World Series record with a 17-game hitting streak for the New York Yankees and later managed the Baltimore Orioles to the 1966 title, died Friday. He was 84. Bauer died in the Kansas City area, where he made his home, Yankees spokesman Jason...