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Duty Calls: WWII soldier, Cohoes native ID'd after POW camp death
Army Maj. James J. O’Donovan, a native of Cohoes, was finally laid to rest 80 years after he died in a prisoner of war camp ...
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Army Nurse POWs in the Philippines, World War II
The Department of Defense is commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, one the great historical events ...
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2 US Army Air Forces soldiers, killed during WWII, are home for burial
The remains of two U.S. Army Air Forces soldiers killed during World War II, Sgt. R. L. Tyler and Staff Sgt. Hubert Yeary, ...
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Remains of WWII Soldier Finally Returning to Central New York after 83 Years
After being buried as an unknown soldier in the Philippines, Private Hennessey is finally returning to Boonville.
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WWII soldier, who died as POW in the Philippines in 1942, to be buried Tuesday in San Diego
O’Donovan, who died during World War II, will be interred Tuesday at Miramar ... when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in December 1941. He was among thousands of U.S. and Filipino ...
WWII soldier’s remains will finally return to Central NY, 84 years after he left
DNA testing identified Harland Hennessey, 24, of Boonville, who died in 1942 in the Philippines. Now, he's coming home.