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‘Salute to Service’ Schedule: Inside FMC & FETV’s Month of Wartime Movies

The first and last weeks of May include two big tributes to the men and women of the armed forces: May 8 is international Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day), which commemorates the 1945 surrender of Nazi Germany that ended World War II in Europe; and May 25 brings

'The Montana way': Missoula World War II veteran honored for service in Iwo Jima

81 years ago, teenager Ron "Rondo" Scharfe piloted a troop carrier full of Marines toward the shores of Iwo Jima amid the final stages of the Pacific Theater in World War II. But before the carrier could land, it hit an underwater obstruction, sending the ship forward. Scharfe