Arizona Republic published on August 29, 2019 an article about the Navajo Code Talkers that starts of with ... "In 1942, during the depths of World War II, the United States Marine Corps recruited 29 Navajo men to develop an unbreakable code that would be used across the Pacific during the war ... [MORE] "
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The new Freedom Pavilion was recently opened at the World War II Museum in New Orleans. This video from DVIDS has more information.
The Freedom Pavilion has WWII aircraft and other "large item" displays.
American Forces Press Service reports that the U.S. Department of Defense has created a new website - valor.defense.gov - dedicated to "raising awareness of service members' heroism and to help deter those who falsely claim military honors"
John Wilkens at the Union-Tribune has an in-depth article with some great pictures of WWII Veterans visiting Washington DC including the WWII memorial.
A total of "105 veterans" took an "all-expenses-paid Honor Flight trip this weekend from San Diego were treated like heroes wherever they went. Strangers came up and thanked them for their service."
The group that puts this all together is the San Diego Honor Flight team.
The 3rd Veteran Stories Podcast is with Mr. Jim Hutson, and it covers his stories and experiences related to his service in the United Statues Marine Corps (1938-1966) during War World II, and his 28 total years of military service (China, Japan, United States, Vietnam):
(Size 46.7 MBs, Running Time 50m57s, Originally Published 02-27-2011)
The San Diego Union-Tribune for Sunday, August 2, 2009 has two interesting veteran related news stories:
DefenseLink recent published a story of some World War II veterans visiting Washington DC via the Honor Flight project.
Visitors are taken on a whirlwind tour of DC area Veteran related monuments including the National World War II Memorial, USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima), and Arlington National Cemetery.
The San Diego Union-Tribune recently published an article entitled "Honoring 'Chosin Few': Korean War battle vets share their stories for upcoming documentary" written by Rick Rogers.
The story is about filmmakers Brian Iglesias and Anton Sattler who were in San Diego interviewing veterans for their upcoming documentary called 'The Chosin Few.'
It was reported on Oct. 8, 2006 in the San Diego Union-Tribune that US Marine Col. F. Brooke Nihart passed away on Aug. 30, 2006 at the age of 87 in Fairfax, VA. He was the author of the U.S. Military Code of Conduct that was originally written in 1955, and slightly revised in 1977.
He was a veteran of WWII (Battle of Wake Island & Battle of Okinawa) and the Korean War (Battle of the Punchbowl). During his career he was awarded the Navy Cross, two Bronze Stars, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal the Meritorious Service Medal, and Air Medal.
It should also be noted that from 1972 to 1991 he was a historian and deputy director of Marine Corps museums.
Iwo Jima veteran Donn Lewin tells his stories to the Honolulu Advertister during a screening in Hawaii of the new movie directed/produced by Clint Eastwood called "Flags of Our Fathers".