Don Milne
28,000 US WWII Fallen Stories Completed
Thanks to the efforts of hundreds of volunteers from all 50 states and more than a dozen other countries, 28,000+ US World War II fallen...
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Don Milne
- Apr 23
- 2 min
Nearly 80 Years Later, 41 PA Men Who Died In World War II Remembered
Stories Behind the Stars Pennsylvania State Director Kathy Harmon and our Pennsylvania volunteers have been attracting some local media...
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Don Milne
- Apr 20
- 1 min
Stories Behind the Stars Financial Report
Stories Behind the Stars was set up in February 2020 as a nonprofit initiative. The original plan was to take donations through a partner...
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Don Milne
- Apr 16
- 1 min
Illinois WWII Fallen Newsletter
Illinois State Director Pam Broviak uses a monthly SBTS newsletter to communicate the progress of their mission to find the names of all...
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Don Milne
- Apr 13
- 1 min
$10,000 Essay Prize for Young WWII Historian
Stories Behind the Stars European Theater of Operations Director Scott Rayl let me know about an essay contest sponsored by the American...
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Don Milne
- Apr 12
- 3 min
I need you on the front page and evening news
On July 4th, 2020 the largest media organization in Utah did a story about a new nonprofit initiative with the ambitious goal to write...
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Don Milne
- Apr 11
- 1 min
Update: creating a story of every WWII fallen buried in Arlington National Cemetery
Over the past 15 months more than 150 volunteers have been writing the stories of the WWII fallen buried at Arlington National Cemetery....
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Don Milne
- Apr 11
- 2 min
39 States Finding All The WWII Fallen
This blog post has been updated. For new list of names visit https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/post/41-states-finding-all-the-wwii-fa...
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Don Milne
- Apr 3
- 1 min
27,000 US WWII Fallen Stories Completed
Thanks to the efforts of hundreds of volunteers from all 50 states and more than a dozen other countries, 27,000+ US World War II fallen...
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Don Milne
- Mar 31
- 2 min
38 States Finding All The WWII Fallen
There is no accurate, official list of the World War II fallen. The mission of Stories Behind the Stars is to create an accurate,...
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Don Milne
- Mar 27
- 1 min
Stories Behind the Stars Profiled On YouTube
Earlier this month, experienced family history researcher Devon Noel Lee interviewed Stories Behind the Stars founder Don Milne. Devon...
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Don Milne
- Mar 22
- 2 min
Temp Glitch on Your WWII Fallen Stories
One of the key aspects of the Stories Behind the Stars project is the ability of people to read stories of the fallen using a smartphone...
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Don Milne
- Mar 13
- 1 min
26,000 US WWII Fallen Stories Completed
Thanks to the efforts of hundreds of volunteers from all 50 states and more than a dozen other countries, 26,000+ US World War II fallen...
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Don Milne
- Mar 11
- 1 min
The race to creating a story of every WWII fallen buried in Arlington National Cemetery
Over the past 14 months more than 150 volunteers have been writing the stories of the WWII fallen buried at Arlington National Cemetery....
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Don Milne
- Mar 7
- 1 min
RootsTech 2023: Volunteers Writing the Stories of All 421,000 US WWII Fallen
The most popular online family history conference in the world attracted more than a million participants during its three days of...
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Don Milne
- Feb 28
- 2 min
35 States Finding All The WWII Fallen
There is no accurate, official list of the World War II fallen. The mission of Stories Behind the Stars is to create an accurate,...
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Don Milne
- Feb 27
- 2 min
Remembering a missing soldier, lost for 20 years, on his 100th birthday this Memorial Day
If you walk among the graves of the men buried in Section 18 of Arlington National Cemetery, you will find 173 graves of World War II...
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Don Milne
- Feb 23
- 1 min
25,000 US WWII Fallen Stories Completed
Thanks to the efforts of hundreds of volunteers from all 50 states and more than a dozen other countries, 25,000+ US World War II fallen...
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Don Milne
- Feb 22
- 1 min
The stories of all the men lost on the recently discovered submarine USS Albacore
Last week the Naval History and Heritage Command announced that the US WWII submarine USS Albacore had been found off the Japanese coast....
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Don Milne
- Feb 22
- 2 min
Remembering the forgotten tragedy equal to sinking of USS Arizona
On 26 November 1943, an Allied convoy KMF-26 Annex, deployed for the Pacific Theater of Operation, was in the Mediterranean Sea, off the...
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