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WWI museum receives big haul
http://www.kansascity.com/637/story/1644567.html
As Kansas City’s Liberty Memorial has gained acclaim with its World War I museum, the flow of donated artifacts has also greatly increased.
But officials are reeling from the immensity of a recent gift from the widow of a lifelong collector. A semi-trailer truck was needed to haul in the roughly 1,700 items, most of them related to the ferocious machine guns of that era.
http://www.kansascity.com/637/story/1644567.html
As Kansas City’s Liberty Memorial has gained acclaim with its World War I museum, the flow of donated artifacts has also greatly increased.
But officials are reeling from the immensity of a recent gift from the widow of a lifelong collector. A semi-trailer truck was needed to haul in the roughly 1,700 items, most of them related to the ferocious machine guns of that era.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2010/jan/17/yorks-legacy-comes-to-east-tennessee/
A renowned German machine gun that York captured in the closing days of the war in France is on permanent loan to the Museum of Appalachia in Norris. It will be on display for the first time Jan. 24 at the Tennessee Theatre downtown in a special exhibition.
A renowned German machine gun that York captured in the closing days of the war in France is on permanent loan to the Museum of Appalachia in Norris. It will be on display for the first time Jan. 24 at the Tennessee Theatre downtown in a special exhibition.
The reburial of 250 World War 1 Australian and British soldiers unearthed from a mass grave in France is proving to be a small but important gesture for their descendants.
The long-awaited reinterment of the soldiers, whose whereabouts were a mystery for decades after they were killed near the rural town of Fromelles in 1916, was due to begin on Saturday night (EDS: 2100 AEDT) with hundreds of people expected to descend on the village for a special ceremony marking the event.
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/wwi-diggers-reburial-an-overdue-honour-20100130-n4si.html
The long-awaited reinterment of the soldiers, whose whereabouts were a mystery for decades after they were killed near the rural town of Fromelles in 1916, was due to begin on Saturday night (EDS: 2100 AEDT) with hundreds of people expected to descend on the village for a special ceremony marking the event.
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/wwi-diggers-reburial-an-overdue-honour-20100130-n4si.html
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