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World War II
New York Guard Says Farewell to 100-year-old Guard Veteran
May 16, 2024
— WATERFORD, N.Y. - A 100-year-old New York National Guard World War II veteran who survived the bloody Battle of Saipan was honored by a New York Army National Guard Honor Guard team as he was laid to...
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Kentucky National Guard Posthumously Honors World War II POW
December 22, 2023
— CYNTHIANA, Ky. - There can be little doubt that the spirit of U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Jack Henry Owen is alive and well nearly 11 years after the former World War II bomber pilot died at the age of...
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National Guard’s Heritage Honored at Storied Army Base
November 7, 2023
— ARLINGTON, Va. – In a hallowed corner of Patton Hall at Northern Virginia’s Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, a journey through the annals of American military history awaits. An officer’s saber from...
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New York Army Guard Provides Funeral Honors for WWII Pilot
May 22, 2023
— ROSE, N.Y. - A World War II pilot declared missing in action in 1943 was laid to rest by New York Army National Guard Soldiers on May 20 in Rose Cemetery.Ten Soldiers from the New York Military Forces...
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Georgia Guardsman Promoted, Family Service Honored
May 22, 2023
— MARIETTA, Ga. - Maj. Alejandro V. Pascual IV was promoted to lieutenant colonel at the Clay National Guard Center May 21 in a ceremony that also honored the Pascual family’s history of military...
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Iowa Guard CH-47 Delivers Historic F-80 via Sling Load
April 12, 2023
— SIOUX CITY, Iowa - An Iowa Army National Guard CH-47 helicopter flew to Sioux City this week to pick up a Korean War-era F-80 fighter jet from the Air National Guard paint facility.After being...
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Virginia National Guard Installation Redesignated Fort Barfoot
March 27, 2023
— FORT BARFOOT, Va. – The Virginia National Guard’s Fort Pickett was officially redesignated Fort Barfoot in honor of Col. Van T. Barfoot, a World War II Medal of Honor recipient with extensive...
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Rainbow Division Vet Passes on War Stories to Today's Soldiers
December 8, 2022
— ALBANY, N.Y. – A World War II veteran of the 42nd Infantry Division shared his combat stories with 300 New York Army National Guard Soldiers serving in the division's headquarters for the unit's...
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NY Air Guard Leaders Salute World War II Vet on his 100th
November 29, 2022
— LATHAM, N.Y. – New York Air National Guard leaders gathered at the Shaker Place Nursing Home to honor a World War II veteran on his 100th birthday Nov. 28.William H. Meyer served in the Army Air...
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134th Infantry’s lone WWII Medal of Honor recipient a ‘One Man Army’
March 24, 2022
— LINCOLN, Neb. – Staff Sgt. Junior James Spurrier was born in Castlewood, Virginia, Dec. 14, 1922, as James Ira Spurrier Jr. to Ira and Ruby Spurrier. When Spurrier enlisted into the Army on Sept. 25,...
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NYNG Soldiers honor state heroes at Arlington Cemetery
February 17, 2021
— ARLINGTON, Va. – In a letter to his son in 1944, Gen. George S. Patton Jr. said: "To be a successful Soldier, you must know history. … Weapons change, but man who uses them changes not at all."History...
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Airmen honor Vermont’s oldest living veteran
December 31, 2020
— SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. – Honor is a word ingrained into the ethos of men and women who have ever served in the U.S. military. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that when Airmen of the 158th Fighter...
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Guardsmen honor World War II veteran on his 99th birthday
December 9, 2020
— HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. – Wearing a Dodgers baseball cap and a pin that read, “It’s my birthday,” World War II veteran and Purple Heart recipient Joseph Casaburi was greeted by four New York Army...
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Red Arrow veteran killed in WWII finally receives headstone
September 24, 2020
— MILWAUKEE – A Red Arrow Soldier killed in action during World War II finally received a headstone during a Sept. 10 ceremony in Milwaukee 76 years after making the ultimate sacrifice for his country...
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42nd Infantry Division marks 103 years of service
August 13, 2020
— UNDISCLOSED LOCATION – The 42nd Infantry Division was formed in August 1917, supposedly earning its nickname, "the Rainbow Division," after Col. Douglas MacArthur, then chief of staff, said the...
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NY National Guard repairs World War I Soldier's grave marker
June 5, 2020
— ONEIDA, N.Y – The gravestone of a New York National Guard Soldier who died while storming the Hindenburg Line more than 100 years ago was set right the day after Memorial Day 2020 by present-day...
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Rainbow Haggadah reminds Jewish GIs of the meaning of freedom
April 9, 2020
— DAHN, Germany – On March 28, 1945, the Soldiers of the 42nd Infantry Division publicly demonstrated that Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime was finished. That day 1,500 Soldiers and civilians celebrated a...
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