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Gordon Gayle, Navy Cross recipient and influential general, dies at 95
Honiara :: Solomon Islands | 13 days ago
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Gayle, a retired Marine Corps brigadier general who received the Navy Cross after a fierce World War II battle in the Pacific and who later directed an influential study of tactics and battlefield planning, died April 21 at an assisted-living
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Post-Conflict Trauma Haunts Solomon Islands
Ramsi :: Estonia | 20 days ago
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IPS Articles In 1998 the Gwale-led Isatabu Freedom Movement (IFM) began evicting Malaitan settlers, alleging they were encroaching on land, resources and jobs on Guadalcanal...Today state infrastructure and services that were destroyed or damaged are
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Island by island in the Pacific
Venice :: FL :: USA | 30 days ago
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Florida native Raymond Duke moved to Venice at age 12 in 1934, graduated from Venice-Nokomis High School in 1940, and was inducted into the Army in 1943. He served in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater as a sergeant in 199th Coast Artillery Battalion (
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Terrence Malick: Hollywood's transcendental maverick
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 1 month ago
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Story Multimedia There is no other American movie career like it. Not only is the 69-year-old Texan conspicuous for his academic training in philosophy(he has translated Martin Heidegger from German), but also for his abrupt departures from promising
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Malick lets the visuals do the talking in 'To the Wonder'
Minneapolis :: MN :: USA | 1 month ago
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Star Tribune (Minneapolis) Love gained and love lost are the subjects of "To the Wonder," a film of simple themes, minimal dialogue and eloquent imagery...The opening scenes of Neil (Ben Affleck) and his local love, Marina (Olga Kurylenko), are
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Bellingham author to discuss book about WW II Marines in Pacific
Bellingham :: WA :: USA | 1 month ago
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Bellingham author Marcus Brotherton will give a public talk Friday, April 5, about his new book, "Voices of the Pacific: Untold Stories from the Marine Heroes of World War II." Brotherton will discuss his book and sign copies at 7 p.m. at Barnes &
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Engineers of Victory
Boston :: MA :: USA | 3 months ago
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ments Engineers of Victory Meet the engineers, scientists, technicians, and logistical experts whose ingenuity and innovations caused the Allies to win World War II. By Terry Hartle, Book Reviewer / February 6, 2013 Conventional wisdom about World
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Row leads to dolphin slaughter
Honiara :: Solomon Islands | 4 months ago
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Up to 900 bottlenose dolphins have been slaughtered in the Solomon Islands this week by a village angry that an international aid group has stopped paying them not to kill the mammals. Fanalei village on Malaita say the American Earth Island
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David Turner, saw firsthand devastation in Nagasaki, 90
Palm Harbor :: FL :: USA | 5 months ago
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Fla. Before he set foot in Nagasaki, Japan, where the last atomic bomb was dropped on a human population, David Turner thought he had seen the worst. The young Navy corpsman had served on Guadalcanal, the longest campaign of World War II in the
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This Pearl Harbor Vet Explained How He Survived One Of The Worst Attacks In US History
Tōkyō :: Japan | 5 months ago
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It's easy to imagine that Daniel Fruchtman tells stories today with the same energy he did when he was a kid, fresh in the Army, and stationed at Hawaii in 1941, just months prior to Japan's attack. As a corporal he later earned a battlefield
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