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Don Milne
Apr 13, 20231 min read
$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, 20233 min read
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, 20231 min read
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, 20232 min read
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, 20231 min read
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, 20232 min read
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, 20231 min read
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, 20232 min read
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, 20231 min read
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, 20231 min read
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, 20231 min read
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, 20232 min read
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, 20232 min read
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, 20231 min read
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, 20231 min read
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, 20232 min read
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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Don Milne
Feb 21, 20231 min read
See where every WWII fallen is buried in Arlington National Cemetery
Over the past 12 months more than 100 volunteers have been writing the stories of the WWII fallen buried at Arlington National Cemetery....
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Don Milne
Feb 13, 20231 min read
RootsTech 2023 Seminar on WWII Remembrance
RootsTech is the most popular family history conference in the world. For the second year in a row participants can learn about the grass...
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Don Milne
Feb 12, 20232 min read
33 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 7, 20231 min read
10 steps to remember all 421,000+ US WWII Fallen - 397,000 to go
Feel free to copy and share this infographic.
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