Old soldiers recall epic Battle of the Bulge
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Bastogne, a market town where several roads converged, was critical to blocking the German advance.
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The 60th anniversary of the last major confrontation on the western front between the Allies and Nazis is marked in Belgium.
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Thousands of people lined the streets of Paris Wednesday to watch a reenactment of the French and US liberation of the city from Nazi occupation 60 years ago.
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On Dec. 16, 1944, Harold Kist was with two fellow soldiers hunkered down in a roadside ditch in Belgium searching for a German patrol that had accidentally stumbled into their camp.
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Retired Brig. Gen. John E. McDonald glances back across six decades and recalls a prominent point in the history of Scranton&#39;s 109th Infantry Regiment.
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Brig. Gen. Dany Van de Ven, the Belgian defense attache here, told U.S. veterans this week that his nation is honored to remember their sacrifices during the Battle of the Bulge 60 years ago.
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Sixty years ago, the skies above the Dutch countryside filled with the white silk of parachutes of 30,000 Allied troops while tanks rolled up from Belgium along a narrow road that became known as "Hell's Highway."
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Two columns of Second World War tanks,  trucks and cars rumbled through Paris on Wednesday to re-enact  the arrival of French and United States forces 60 years ago to  liberate the city from four years of Nazi occupation.
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Russian soldiers in World War II-style uniforms slogged through early winter slush Tuesday to re-enact the Soviet Union's defeat of Adolf Hitler's armies in the Battle of Moscow near the Russian capital 63 years ago.
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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.
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Don Polries and Helen Vetter don't look like outlaws. She's 82 and nearly blind, and he's an 87-year-old World War II veteran whose only brush with the law was a traffic ticket or two, decades ago.
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Forgotten participants in the liberation of France receive a deeply moving tribute in the World War II saga "Days of Glory," a film that's epic in both scope and drama as it follows a group of North African soldiers fighting the Nazis in Europe.
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CASSINO, Italy (CP) - In the shadows of the Benedictine abbey where German forces held out for long months in the spring of 1944, Canadian war veterans paid tribute Tuesday to the comrades who died in some of the most bitter fighting of the Second World War.
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Honoring fallen soldiers who died in combat, battle-scarred veterans of World War II returned Sunday to a desolate valley where they trained six decades ago.
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This week the Netherlands will honor the thousands of mainly British and Polish soldiers who took part in the failed attempt to seize a bridgehead north of the Rhine river near Arnhem between September 17 and 23, 1944, a tragic episode in the Allied advance on Germany.
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That old conflict shaped the outlook of many of today's leaders, including Sen. John McCain and Senator-elect Jim Webb. Author Robert Timberg reflects on the political futures of the two former soldiers.
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Veterans of the Battle of Arnhem re-enact the famous air drop to mark its 60th anniversary.