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A Year Ago Today, We Lost America’s Oldest Living Vet

by Ben Philippi

A year ago today, we lost Richard Overton. At 112 years of age, he was America’s oldest living Veteran. In 2015, he showed us his gun collection.

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A Year Ago Today, We Lost America’s Oldest Living Vet

by Ben Philippi

A year ago today, we lost Richard Overton. At 112 years of age, he was America’s oldest living Veteran. In 2015, he showed us his gun collection.

The post A Year Ago Today, We Lost America’s Oldest Living Vet appeared first on Guns.com.

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The Battle of the Bulge at 75: The Guns They Carried

by Chris Eger

Some 75 years ago this week, Hitler launched the last great German offensive of WWII through the densely forested Ardennes region-- and it was stopped by American guns.

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Aviation buffs find 1,500 rounds of live .50 cal under old airfield

by Chris Eger

American B-24 Liberator bombers flew from the field in England during World War II to plaster the Germans in Western Europe, but they apparently left some rounds behind.

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This shrapnel damaged M1911 is relic from Battle of the Bulge (13 PHOTOS)

by Chris Eger

"Today I held hell in my hands," said a firearms buff who came across a battered 1911, pockmarked from its wartime service before it was recovered from a World War II battlefield.

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America’s oldest Medal of Honor recipient, Nicholas Oresko, dies at 96-years-old

by Brent McCluskey

At 96-years-old, the heroic World War II Medal of Honor recipient, Nicholas Oresko, passed away Friday night at Englewood Hospital from complications resulting from a surgery. According to Jersey Journal, Oresko, who is from Bayonne, New Jersey, is said to be the city’s most famous citizen. “He’s one of the most famous people ever to […]

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