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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — William Roy Dover's memory of the World War II battle is as sharp as it was 75 years ago, even though it's been long forgotten by most everyone else. His first sergeant rousted him from his pup tent around 2 a.m. when word came the Japanese were attacking and had maybe even gotten behind the American front line, on a desolate, unforgiving slab of an occupied island in the North Pacific. "He was shouting, 'Get up! Get out!'" Dover said. Dover and most of the American soldiers rushed to an embankment on what became known as...

The Japanese government has resumed a search for the remains of World War II soldiers said to be buried in mass graves on the Aleutian island of Attu, U.S. officials said. More than 60 years after one of the deadliest battles of the war, the bodies of nearly 2,500 Japanese soldiers still lie beneath the bog of the tiny fog-draped island at the western tip of the chain, according to estimates by the Department of Defense. Last week, a group of Japanese and U.S. officials made a four-day trip to the island and used shovels and pickaxes to verify the...

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Lord, Keep our Troops forever in Your care Give them victory over the enemy... Grant them a safe and swift return... Bless those who mourn the lost. . FReepers from the Foxhole join in prayer for all those serving their country at this time. ...................................................................................... ........................................... U.S. Military History, Current Events and Veterans Issues Where Duty, Honor and Countryare acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated. Our Mission: The FReeper Foxhole is dedicated to Veterans of our Nation's military forces and to others who are affected in their relationships with Veterans. In the FReeper Foxhole, Veterans or their family members should feel...

Man injured in raid targeting gun, drug trafficking and worse 07/08/2003 By News Channel 3 / azfamily.com Staff PHOENIX -- More than 500 federal, state and local law enforcement officers armed with 40 search warrants and 36 arrest warrants fanned out across Arizona Tuesday . Tom Mangan, spokeman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, said the raids are the culmination of a two-year undercover investigation targeting firearms trafficking, drug trafficking, bomb-making and murder-for-hire. Mangan says officers intended to seize machine guns, bombs, bomb-making materials and drugs during the raids, which focused in part on outlaw motorcycle gangs....

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