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JSF
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Posted: 5/27/2013 1:35 PM
The time Americans and Nazis fought together: http://www.historynet.com/the-battle-for-castle-itter.htm
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Posted: 5/28/2013 12:24 AM
Thanks for sharing, JSF.  That's one incredible story.  A very good Memorial Day read. 
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Posted: 5/28/2013 8:51 AM
Great story.  Thanks for the referral, Jeff.
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Posted: 5/29/2013 10:01 AM
That is a great story. Some real creative talent in some of those units, naming tanks "Besotten Jenny" and "Boche Buster."
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Posted: 5/30/2013 3:29 PM
Good read, thanks for referral.  I tried to google earth/bing the castle in article and couldn't find it.  Name change or no longer existing?
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Posted: 6/1/2013 2:54 PM
A different war, but here's an interesting story of how a photograph of a Union solider, who died within 20 days of sitting for the photo, was finally identified after about a century and a half using some good detective work:

http://www.militarytrader.com/military-trader-news/civil-war-photo-id-help-found-in-a-tip-of-the-cap

Putting a name to the face of this patriot after all of these years is something that helps bring closure to at least one family's sacrifice.  There are literally thousands and thousands of other unidentified Civil War photos that are not identified and most will never be.  That's sad.
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Posted: 6/1/2013 4:44 PM
Civil War fun fact: The last widow of a Civil War veteran died in 2004. 2004!

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5106000/ns/us_news/t/last-widow.../
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Posted: 6/1/2013 6:15 PM
Yes, this is amazing, perhaps even more so is that circa 2000 there were three still living.  The Sons of Union Veterans hosted a gathering in which they all showed up, as I recall.  One of the three was the widow of a member of a United States Colored Infantry regiment.  My memory is a little foggy on if these three were all Union widows or if it included the Confederate widow mentioned in your link.  I tried to find a link to a story about this gathering that was in The Banner (official SUV publication) but I couldn't find it.  All of these women, of course, were -- in today's parlance -- trophy wives. 

P.S. A less charitable view would be to call them "gold diggers" who were after the old guy's pension. 

P.P.S.  SUV is now officially SUVCW (Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War), but I still use the old name most of the time, as do many members.  The major reason for the change is that too many idiots out there in Peoria, Podunk and MTV-land thought that "Union" referred to labor unions and not the union of states of the US of A.  
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