Standing in Reading's Laurel Hill Cemetery, she acknowledges that she often feels surrounded by ghosts. Hendrickson is researching and writing about every WWII veteran in Reading and North Reading.

Two United Airlines pilots are working to take two WWII veterans to the Philippines to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Manila.

Mary Kearney was a leader of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, a unit depicted in the Tyler Perry movie “The Six Triple Eight” released on Netflix.

Other adventures over the years included trips to Egypt where they climbed the Great Pyramid Cheops, biking through Normandy, traveling to India to ... and especially loved WWII books during the last ...

Following this solemn experience, we went to the Normandy American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer ... the only predominantly Black unit of the WAC deployed overseas during WWII. Under the command of ...

In June 2024, Oury took four WWII to veterans to Normandy for the 80th anniversary ... for the first time since WWII at the largest U.S. cemetery overseas. Scott Seeberger, the other pilot and ...

They arrived on the Normandy coast on July 10 ... 11, 1942 and was repatriated and reburied in Holy Rosary Cemetery in Darlington in December of 1947. Henry Ellious O’Brien was born July 31, 1918 in ...