Information Added

We've added more documents to our website. Check out the Events/Documents section and on the right hand side see the "Documents" section.

Also added a Post War Activities section on the same page. We've posted information on the Last Shot Memorial that singles out the 97th Division.

Former Nazi camp guard charged 29,000 times

German prosecutors said Wednesday they have charged retired Ohio auto worker John Demjanjuk with more than 29,000 counts of accessory to murder for his time as a guard at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp, and will seek his extradition from the U.S.
Demjanjuk is accused of participating in the murders while he was a guard at the Nazi camp in occupied Poland between March and September 1943.

You can read the full story here.

Most-wanted Nazi died in 1992

Documents in Egypt are reporting that Dr. Aribert Heim died in 1992.

Born June 28, 1914 in Radkersburg, Austria, Heim joined the local Nazi party in 1935, three years before Austria was bloodlessly annexed by Germany.

He later joined the Waffen SS and was assigned to Mauthausen, a concentration camp near Linz, Austria, as a camp doctor in October and November 1941.

While there, witnesses told investigators, he worked closely with SS pharmacist Erich Wasicky on such gruesome experiments as injecting various solutions into Jewish prisoners' hearts to see which killed them the fastest.

In 1961, German authorities were alerted that Heim was living in Baden-Baden and began an investigation, but when they finally went to arrest him in September 1962, they just missed him — he apparently had been tipped off.

Heim would be 94 today if still alive.

You can read the full report from MSNBC.

Silver Star Finally

Robert Bailey was awarded the Silver Star medal for saving DeBoard’s life in World War II. It took 63 years for him to get the Silver Star.

You can read the full article here:

http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/20081220/TOPSTORIES/812190210

Veteran's Day 2008

Thank a Veteran for their service today. We owe them our gratitude for the freedoms we enjoy everyday.

Airman missing from World War II identified

The AP is reporting the remains of a service man have been identified.

"NORWALK, Conn. - The remains of a U.S. serviceman from Norwalk missing in action from World war II have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.

The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office announced Monday that the remains of Staff Sgt. Martin F. Troy, U.S. Army Air Forces, of Norwalk will be buried on Nov. 20 in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C.

On June 30, 1944, Troy was on a B-24H Liberator participating in a mission to bomb an oil refinery in Blechammer, Germany. The plane was shot down by German aircraft and crashed into a swampy area near Nemesvita, Hungary, beside Lake Balaton."

US experts in Germany to search for missing WW2 GIs

Over 78,000 GIs are still unaccounted for in Germany from World War 2. A team of experts are now going to comb through Germany to search for these troops and bring them home. You can read the full story here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/2965560/US-experts-in-Germany-to-search-for-missing-WW2-GIs.html