Honor Flight Heroes

Two jets mark milestone for Honor Flight

The Honor Flight program in South Carolina will reach a milestone today.

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‘We were receiving fire from everywhere’

It was just before dawn in March 1945 on the smoking, stinking, moon-like island of death that was Iwo Jima. Nealy Adolph Sweat of Summerville was carefully peeking over the rim of the shell crater that was keeping him alive when a shot cracked out.
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'Everything was secret back then'

Henry Austin Browder of West Columbia began World War II on horseback. Browder — a mechanic in a mechanized war — had never ridden a horse.
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‘You just had to fly through’ enemy fire

The sky was black with flak over the Brenner Pass in the Italian Alps, the shells bursting like lethal popcorn all around the bobbing B-24 “Liberator” bomber piloted by William C. Wildman.
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‘We had to become human again’

Irv Levine didn’t think about the amulet until it was gone. His grandmother gave a kemeye, a cameo blessed by a rabbi, to each of her six grandsons who went off to war in 1941.
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Battle haunts WWII vet

Fifty-two bodies — German or American, Fritz Gray couldn’t tell — lay frozen in a minefield.
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'I thought it was my duty' to serve

Anna Bell “Wendy” Wendelburg Zeigler began work at 6:30 that December morning in 1944, in a sprawling Gothic hospital in Paris, to pandemonium, blood and screams.
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WWII vets from S.C. ready for takeoff to visit memorial

A group raising money to fly veterans of the Second World War to visit the National World War II Memorial in the nation’s capital has reached its first milestone — $50,000.
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Pearl Harbor vet to see memorial

Russell V. Meyne was sitting down to breakfast when he noticed, through the chow hall window, a fighter plane skimming the airfield about a quarter mile away.