Remains of WWII airman from NY identified in South Pacific

The remains of a World War II airman have been identified and will be flown back to his hometown in New York nearly 70 years after his plane and two others failed to return to their base in the South Pacific.

Sgt. Dominick Licari was 31 when his A-20 Havoc bomber crashed into a mountain in Papua-New Guinea on March 13, 1944. After two years of searches, the military presumed Licari to be dead, the Utica Observer Dispatch reported.

DNA samples provided by relatives matched those of Licari, whose remains were discovered in 2012 amid overgrown jungles, according to the report.

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Restoration of famed WWII bomber Memphis Belle flies high

It defied the Nazis and became the first World War II bomber to complete 25 combat missions and return home. CNET Road Trip 2013 checked out how it's being restored to its original glory. Read the complete story here.

'Flying Pencil' WWII German bomber raised from depths of English Channel

A British museum on Monday successfully recovered a German bomber that had been shot down over the English Channel during World War II.
The aircraft, nicknamed the Luftwaffe's "Flying Pencil" because of its narrow fuselage, came down off the coast of Kent more than 70 years ago during the Battle of Britain.
The rusty and damaged plane is believed to be the

most intact example of the German Dornier Do 17 bomber that has ever been found. Divers discovered the aircraft submerged in 50 feet of water in 2008.

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Frank Lautenberg dies; was U.S. Senate's last WW II vet

Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (1924 – 2013)

Frank Lautenberg was the last serving veteran of World War II in the United States Senate. After graduating from Nutley High School in 1941, Lautenberg served overseas in the United States Army Signal Corps during World War II from 1942 to 1946. Then, financed by the GI Bill, he attended and graduated from Columbia Business School in 1949 with a degree in economics.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/03/politics/obit-lautenberg/index.html

Nazi SS-led unit commander accused of atrocities reportedly living in Minnesota

Over 68 years after the end of World War II I find it amazing that there are still war criminals out there. Fox news is reporting today that an SS commander has escaped capture and was living all along in the U.S.

"A top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit accused of burning villages filled with women and children lied to American immigration officials to get into the United States and has been living in Minnesota since shortly after World War II, according to evidence uncovered by The Associated Press."

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America's oldest veteran to spend quiet Memorial Day at Texas home

For his 107th Memorial Day, Richard Arvine Overton, who saw many of his fellow soldiers fall in the line of duty in World War II and even more die over the following decades, is planning a quiet day at the Texas home he built after returning home from World War II.

He wouldn’t want it any other way.

Overton, who is believed to be the nation's oldest veteran, told FoxNews.com he’ll likely spend the day on the porch of his East Austin home with a cigar nestled in his right hand, perhaps with a cup of whiskey-stiffened coffee nearby.

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New Jersey veteran gets back dog tag he lost in World War II

Carol Wilkins leaned over the side of her father's wheelchair and handed him the small red box, a heart-shaped cutout revealing its contents: a weathered, bent silver dog tag.

"Oh, Daddy, look," Wilkins exclaimed as her 90-year-old father opened it, his eyes beaming and smile wide. "They're back."

Sixty-nine years after losing his dog tag on the battlefields of southern France, Willie Wilkins reclaimed it Wednesday after a trans-Atlantic effort to return it to him. It started more than a decade ago in a French backyard and ended with a surprise ceremony in Newark City Hall.

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