Posted by my cousin on FB. Cass City, MI is near where he lives.

Cass City WWII vet who lived ‘Hacksaw Ridge’ battle honored

http://www.tuscolatoday.com/index.php/2017/03/01/cass-city-wwii-vet-who-lived-hacksaw-ridge-battle-honored/

Thinking today of the service and sacrifice of Seaman 2nd Class Bryl G. Bowman, who went missing in action on this date 75 years ago. Seaman Bowman was a crew member aboard the USS Houston, which on 1 March 1942 was caught in a desperate battle with the Japanese fleet and was sunk off of the Java coast. Of the 1061 men aboard the Houston, 693 perished.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Houston_(CA-30)

http://www.click2houston.com/news/ceremonies-mark-75th-anniversary-of-uss-houston-sinking

On this 75th anniversary, here is to all the sailors of the USS Houston "still on duty"

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Naval officer and PT boat commander William "Bud" Liebenow passed away Friday February 24th, 2017 at age 97. It was him and his crew that rescued future President John F. Kennedy and the rest of the PT-109 survivors in 1943.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/national/wwii-navy-officer-who-helped-rescue-kennedy-dies-at-age/article_bd313c11-3700-5b6a-a844-953a1fc972e9.html

Thank you for your service to our country sir, rest in peace.

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I subscribe to the Government Publishing Office (GPO) emails to get info on the books that they are featuring - every now and then they are WWII ones. Today's email was about engineer books since it is - apparently - Engineer Week. Who knew? Apparently, it coincides with the week of George Washington's birthday. This year it is February 19-25. The email I got sent me to "Government Book Talk" for Engineer Week. 

As for the GPO, they are the place you can buy your brand new versions of the US Army's Green Books about WWII. For Christmas, I bought the Okinawa green book (with a picture on the cover and no longer green), some posters and a few small publications. Very cool. Anyway, it's pretty easy to navigate around the book store site. The search is ok but you will get a lot of results that don't have anything to do with your search parameters. Here is a search for "Engineers World War II"

   https://bookstore.gpo.gov/search/apachesolr_search/engineer world war ii

Great place for government published books that are hard to get elsewhere.

Looking for the Green Books on PDF. . . and for free?

http://www.history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/collect/usaww2.html

Retired Lt. Gen Harold Moore has passed away Friday February 1st, 2017 at his residence in Auburn,Alabama. A Lt. Colonel at the time, Mr. Moore commanded the 1st Battalion,7th Calvary Regiment at the 1965 Battle of Ia Drang, the first major battle between US and North Vietnamese armies. This action was detailed in the book "We Were Soldiers Once... And Young". I have not read very many books about Vietnam but I have read this one and it is a great read, recommend it. I also enjoyed the movie adapted from it starring Mel Gibson as Lt.Colonel Moore.

http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/lt-gen-hal-moore-dies-depicted-in-film-we-were/article_74d91bc4-bb34-5bc4-b8f6-4e90c25b9289.html

Thank for your service Mr. Moore

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