World War II Veteran turning 100-years-old
SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. -- 100-year birthdays are always remarkable, and for one local veteran, his 100th could be called extraordinary. Harold, or Hal Hubble is 99 and one of the…
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17-year-old killed in WWII buried with military honors
Pfc. William Brandenburg was nearing his 18th birthday on Nov. 20, 1943, the day the United States Army landed on Betio, a small Japanese-occupied island in the central Pacific. He died two days later, one among over 1,000 American soldiers killed in the effort to dislodge the invaders.
