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Vietnam veterans honoured
24+ min ago (1765+ words) Posted by Dale Cohen | Aug 16, 2026 | Community The main road at Palm Beach was closed to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan. At 10.45am this morning (Sunday, 16 August), NSW Police Traffic and Highway Patrol Command closed Barrenjoey Road between…...
Why WWII Stories still captivate Chinese youth
46+ min ago (64+ words) news.cgtn.com Why WWII Stories still captivate Chinese youth On August 15, 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender. Eighty-one years later, at the September 18 Incident History Museum in Shenyang, northeast China’s Liaoning Province, young Chinese are finding their own ways to…...
The knock on the door: 57 years on, a Vietnam War widow tells her story
1+ hour, 22+ min ago (569+ words) August 16, 2026 — 7:56pm To this day, Lynne Moore can’t stand to watch images from July 20, 1969, of the first humans walking on the moon. Her husband, Private Ray Moore, was killed in action in the Vietnam War that week. And so rather than…...
RAF Rivenhall pilot's WW2 sacrifice remembered in Norway
1+ hour, 14+ min ago (734+ words) "On arrival at the crash site, it was breathtaking, because there are bits of aircraft wreckage in 1,000 pieces just lying there," says historian Chris Bullock. He had trekked to a remote part of Norway where Group Captain Wilfred Surplice, 30, station…...
98-year-old calls for remembering 3.1 million Japanese lives lost in war
3+ hour, 20+ min ago (111+ words) The Japan Times 98-year-old calls for remembering 3.1 million Japanese lives lost in war Kazuhiko Takahashi, 98, who was the oldest war-bereaved relative to attend Saturday’s war-end anniversary ceremony in Tokyo, calls for remembering the fact that some 3.1 million Japanese people died…...
Meet Tyson: Army Dog Who Led Troops To Terrorists Despite Being Injured, Honoured On I-Day
8+ hour, 13+ min ago (271+ words) Indian Army assault dog Tyson, attached to 2 Para Special Forces, has been honoured during the 2026 Independence Day celebrations for displaying “bravery and extraordinary courage" during a counter-insurgency operation in Jammu and Kashmir under Operation Rakshak earlier this year. On the…...
98-Yr-Old Calls for Remembering 3.1 M. Japanese Lives Lost in War
10+ hour, 9+ min ago (61+ words) jen.jiji.com 98-Yr-Old Calls for Remembering 3.1 M. Japanese Lives Lost in War Tokyo, Aug. 16 (Jiji Press)--Kazuhiko Takahashi, 98, who was the oldest war-bereaved relative to attend Saturday's war-end anniversary ceremony in Tokyo, calls for remembering the fact that some 3.1 million…...
Banderol: Menya iyi misile nshya y'Uburusiya imeze nk'indege zitajamwo umupilote
20+ hour, 33+ min ago (481+ words) Biragaragara ko Uburusiya bwatangiye gukoresha misile nshya yitwa Banderol mu bitero byayo kuri ukraine. Impuguke zivuga ko ari misile igizwe n"ubwoko bw'indege zigenda ata mupilote arimwo, igisasu hamwe na bombe." Ikoreshwa ry'iyi ntwaro nshya y'Uburusiya ryatangajwe bwa mbere mu…...
The South Coast teens who documented the day WWII arrived on their doorstep
10+ hour, 35+ min ago (824+ words) Big on community. Bigger for the one you care about. Get your property on the market faster with zero upfront costs. Start now > On 22 July, 1942, 17-year-old Merimbula resident “Chappie” Munn set off from the family dairy before sunrise to deliver…...
A hero's humility: The Long Tan veteran who deflected all the praise
15+ hour, 19+ min ago (702+ words) Leonard "Lenny" Vine was an 18-year-old conscript who fought in the defining Battle of Long Tan in Vietnam in 1966, but always deflected praise and reckoned Afghanistan veterans "did it tougher". Mr Vine, who died last year, is being remembered as…...