HONORING VETERANS

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By Eric SOF - Dec 3, 2014 The great escapes of a paratrooper who survived a firing squad, escaped from a prisoner of war camp and was shot four times in battle have emerged after his medals were put up for auction. Lieutenant Percy ‘Clem’ Clements became one of the most highly-decorated soldiers of the Second World War for his heroics and acts of bravery. Now the Nottingham-born soldier’s medals, along with a map he used to escape from the Italian camp, a diary he kept while on the run and a memo written as he lay injured in the 1944 Battle of the Bulge have been put up for sale by his family, with the awards expected to sell for £40,000. Lt Clements was a founding member of the airborne SAS and was involved in the very first British paratroop drop over Italy in 1941. A group of 35 men, including Lt Clements, were captured after the successful mission to blow up an aquaduct. They were stripped and lined up against a wall in front of 20 irate civilians armed ...

Stars and Stripes Published: December 10, 2014 Fight over US veterans' remains in Philippine graves continues The Defense Department’s accounting agencies have agreed to disinter and conduct DNA testing on the remains of 10 World War II service members who were buried as unknowns in the Philippines, after years of fighting against unearthing the bodies. But now the relative of one veteran believed to be buried there might block the exhumation. Families of the missing and Joint Prisoners of War, Missing in Action Accounting Command whistleblowers believe modern technology and the analysis of war and post-war documents can easily identify a great number of these World War II unknowns but say JPAC has chosen to ignore them. As the Defense Department attempts to identify World War II remains exhumed in the Philippines in August, questions have surfaced about the identification years ago of four sets of remains that were returned to families and buried. ...