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Desmond T. Doss was 23 years old when he was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1942. The lanky Lynchburg, Va., native was much like other young men of the Greatest Generation, but one thing set Desmond apart from the other new troops. He was a devout Seventh Day Adventist and refused to touch a weapon. Some of the men in his training unit made jokes about him, others threatened him, but Desmond held firm to his beliefs. The Army considered discharging him, but Desmond objected. “I’d be a very poor Christian if I accepted a discharge implying that I...

ORLANDO, Fla. – In a June 4 obituary about Charles Donald Albury, the co-pilot of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, The Associated Press erroneously reported the training location for the 509th Composite Group. It was Wendover Air Field in Utah, not White Sands, N.M.

A man wanted in Germany for Nazi war crimes has been ordered by US authorities to surrender to an immigration office for deportation. John Demjanjuk, who lives in Ohio, has been fighting deportation since March, when Germany filed charges against him. On Thursday, the US Supreme Court rejected a request by Mr Demjanjuk, 89, to intervene in the case. He denies accusations that he worked as a guard in the Sobibor Nazi death camp during World War II. He says he was captured by the Germans in his native Ukraine during the war and kept as a prisoner of war.