World War II vet, 95, finally gets high school diploma

Its never too late to get that high school deploma.....

A World War II veteran from western Pennsylvania at long last has a high school diploma, earned as a 95th birthday present.

George Hovanec dropped out of school to work, then joined the Marine Corps, serving in a howitzer battalion in Guadalcanal and New Zealand.

Hovanec's family tell WTAE-TV most of his relatives didn't know the family patriarch never graduated. So granddaughter Karen Murray approached Steel Valley High School administrators about a birthday surprise.

Hovanec says he's glad to finally get his diploma 67 years after he came home from World War II.

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Rugged mountains yield hundreds of WWII-era plane crashes of lost "Hump Airmen"

The mountainous region known as The Hump may contain as many as 700 WWII-era crash sites. Here, the wing of a C-109 bulk fuel transport plane appears in the dense jungle. This plane went down over the Hump on July 17, 1945.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/05/24/rugged-mountains-yield-hundreds-wwii-era-plane-crashes-lost-hump-airmen/#ixzz1ycvbYGM9

You can also read more about the search at: http://www.miarecoveries.org/

D-Day medic still haunted by 'the boy on the beach'

D-Day from the point of view of a surviving medic. Full story here.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/06/68-years-later-wwii-medic-paratrooper-recount-d-day-invasion/#ixzz1x1XxIe35

Before and after D-Day: Rare color photos

Everyone knows what happened on the beaches of Normandy as the Allies unleashed an historic assault against German defenses on June 6, 1944. In rare color photos taken before and after the invasion, LIFE magazine’s Frank Scherschel captured countless lesser-known scenes from the run-up to the onslaught and the heady weeks after. For the full gallery, see Life.com.
 
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