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Eight decades after Hiroshima, a new nuclear arms race is underway
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save NAGASAKI, Japan • Eighty years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945, as the Enola Gay winged its way back to the Pacific Island of Tinian, pilot Paul Tibbets reflected on his successful mission — the destruction of…
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Last of the Greatest: These five Colorado vets survived WWII. Here are their stories.
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Marine veteran Arthur Whisennand, 91; Army veteran Franklin Moon, 97; Navy veteran Jim Swanson, 93; Army Air Corps veteran Earl Depner, 101; Marine veteran Ed Krekorian, 94. (Photos by Parker Seibold/The Gazette) There’s a timeless quality to World War II that…
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Last of the Greatest: These five Colorado vets survived WWII. Here are their stories.
There’s a timeless quality to World War II that America’s other conflicts don’t possess. The battle across two oceans came against powerful enemies who possessed much of three continents. The objectives of the war came with a clarity Americans haven’t seen since: We would either topple our fascist opponents or learn to speak Japanese and…