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The Rapid City Journal is partnering with the Veterans Honor Banner Project and the America 250 Project to publish stories on ...
D-Day veteran and social media star "Papa Jake" Larson, who survived Omaha Beach in 1944, has died at 102. Known for sharing ...
When a B-17 bomber exploded over Germany 76 years ago killing 20-year-old Sgt. Francis Wiemerslage, it left a hole in his River Grove, Illinois, family that never healed.
While visiting Normandy, the team visited Omaha Beach, where they collected sand for a special tradition to memorialize the soldiers the student-teacher teams had chosen to research.
In the brutal chaos of the Hürtgen Forest, one German officer made an unthinkable choice—risking everything to save a wounded American.