GREENE — When World War II pilot Jim Paradis, 94, spoke to Greene Central School students Tuesday about Pearl Harbor and his life, his friend and school education technician Maureen Calcagni coaxed Paradis to share a bit about his late wife. Or rather, his unusual marriage proposal. “He met his future wife in the sixth […]
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Remembering Salerno, 1943
Seventy years ago, this week, the Western Allies launched their first amphibious assault on mainland Europe, as American soldiers in the U.S. Army’s 36th Infantry Division (Texas Division) landed under fire on a beach south of Salerno, Italy. The Sept. 9, 1943, attack on the Italian town of Paestum was the untried 36th’s first combat […]
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WWII veteran of Lewiston travels to England with college students
LEWISTON — The Battle of the Atlantic, at its height from mid-1940 through the end of 1943, is often credited as a dominating factor through World War II. Because every effort in Europe depended on the constant arrival of supplies, the Germans made a full-throttle effort to block the shipping routes. In the end the […]