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ONGOING COVERAGE: VOICES OF WAR

Background: Stories and multimedia from the monthly series about veterans in the Inland Northwest.

A call to action

11/9/2008 | When The Spokesman-Review began its "Voices of War" series last fall, editors and reporters expected to be able to find enough compelling stories to publish one a month for a year.

Voices of war: The people

11/9/2008 |

In Patton's path

11/2/2008 | Very few World War II veterans alive today can say they followed Gen. George Patton onto the beaches of Normandy before joining his soldiers for the fierce fight against Nazis through France and Germany.

Voices of War: 'All in a day's work'

10/5/2008 | When Art Anderson landed on the tropical island of Peleliu in the spring of 1944, it was quite a contrast to the harsh landscape around Minot, N.D., where he grew up. Amid coconut trees, white beaches and blinding blue oceans, the 18-year-old Marine finally was getting to fight for his country.

Voices of War: 'God had plan for me'

8/31/2008 | Ernie Peluso has survived much in his 83 years of life – serious falls, car accidents, hunting accidents and a kamikaze attack that sunk his aircraft carrier during World War II – but he's not sure why.

Voices of war: 'You're like brothers'

7/27/2008 | Not a day goes by that Dane Broadfoot doesn't think about his time in World War II and the roughly 600 days of combat he experienced with the 1st Armored Division.

Harrowing, grimy, hard to forget

6/29/2008 | It's been more than a half-century, but Kirby Billington remembers the sound of his ship, the USS Saunter, scraping over the top of a mine in Manila Bay.

Voices of War: Doing his duty

5/25/2008 | David Sullivan spent parts of World War II aboard aircraft carriers in the North Atlantic and South Pacific, but it's the odd turns of fate and unusual situations that the former flight surgeon remembers more than the tales of battle.

Voices of War: Service offered adventure to young nurse

3/23/2008 | Dorothy Tarleton didn't know she was on the same Pacific island as the atomic bombs that would soon devastate Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ending World War II.

Voices of war: For love of flying

2/24/2008 | Retired Lt. Col. Bryant Smick is often reminded of the time he spent flying B-24 bombers over Europe during World War II and of the time he spent as a prisoner of war in Germany and Poland.

Voices of war: Crucial connection

1/13/2008 | Few U.S. military operations were as fundamental to the outcome of World War II – and at the same time as little-known – as those conducted by the Persian Gulf Command, which supplied arms and materiel to the Soviet Union through Iran from 1942 to 1945.

War on the Eastern Front

12/16/2007 | Running through the smoke of a battlefield with the German army behind him, Yevgeniy Sirokhin came face to face with every foot soldier's nightmare: an enemy tank.

Voices of War: Eyewitness to a day of infamy

12/7/2007 | There was a moment 66 years ago – surrounded by smoke on the burning deck of the USS West Virginia, – when Denis Mikkelsen thought to himself: "This is the end."

Voices of War: Remembering Nagasaki

11/11/2007 | Ninety-year-old Frank R. Mace, of Cheney, was a prisoner of war in Japan and an accidental atomic veteran – one of the few Americans briefly exposed to the deadly atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945.