Massachusetts WWI veteran dies at 106
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Russell A. Buchanan, one of the nation's last surviving World War I veterans, has died. He was 106.
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KIRKLAND, Wash. - George Swift Schairer, a scientist whose discovery of Nazi wind tunnel research played a crucial role in development of swept-wing jets, died Thursday of complications from Alzheimerâs disease, his son said.
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Carl Mydans, 97, who died of a heart ailment Aug. 16 at his home in Larchmont, NY, was one of the most celebrated war photographers and roaming journalists of the past century. He often worked in tandem with his wife, the writer Shelley ...
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Edward King, a former Massachusetts   governor who once played professional football for the Buffalo   Bills, died on Monday after undergoing brain surgery following   a fall at his family home. He was 81.
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By Roger Schlueter, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Feb. 11--Q. Can you tell me whatever happened to Gen. Douglas MacArthur's son? Is he still alive? If so, where does he live, etc.   -- Robert Rainbolt of Fairview Heights   A.
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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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Johnny Kelley, a two-time Boston Marathon champion who became a beloved figure in the history of the race by running it a record 61 times, died at 97.
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Family at the funeral of one of the youngest U.S. soldiers to die in the Iraq war remembered him on Tuesday as an enthusiastic boy from Trinidad whose love of guns and his adoptive country drew him into the army at 17.
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In snow and a chilling wind, US veterans and the king of Belgium paid tribute to Allied forces who, in a freezing winter 60 years ago, repulsed the last big German counter-attack of World War II.
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A teenager has died after being bitten  by a mosquito infected with eastern equine encephalitis,  becoming the second Massachusetts resident killed by the rare  disease this summer, a state official said on Thursday.
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Rep. Robert T. Matsui of California, who spent time in an internment camp for Japanese-Americans as an infant during World War II and went on to serve 26 years in Congress, has died of complications from a rare disease, his family said Sunday.
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Rep. Paul E. Gillmor (R-Ohio), a quiet conservative in his 19th year in the House, was found dead yesterday morning in his Arlington County townhouse, police and House Republican leaders said. He was 68.
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Harry Richard Landis, who enlisted in the Army in 1918 and was one of only two known surviving U.S. veterans of World War I, has died. He was 108.
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Families of British and Commonwealth soldiers who fought in World War I will be able to trace their relatives' war records through a Web site launched Monday.
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A U.S. soldier was killed Sunday in a roadside bomb explosion, the military said.
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French adjutant-chief Eugene Rouges died with several of his men here when a German artillery shell exploded in their trench on Nov. 16, 1916.
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Military photographer who had been filming US air assault among seven who died.