Edmonson County WWII POW comes home next month
After spending more than eight decades unaccounted for, U.S. Army Pfc. Thomas Franklin Brooks will finally be laid to rest near his Edmonson County boyhood home next month.
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After spending more than eight decades unaccounted for, U.S. Army Pfc. Thomas Franklin Brooks will finally be laid to rest near his Edmonson County boyhood home next month.
Pleading with prigozhin tonight, was a young lieutenant colonel in the tank unit that fired the first shot at the russian parliament. he spent several months in jail in a gulag, because of that last coup attempt. now he's on telegram asking for support for mr. putin as this continues. >> that is interesting history and context, general. we're trying to get real information in. as you point out, it's very hard out of russia. russian tv interrupted their regularly scheduled programming to denounce prigozhin's claims as basically unreality. and so how will the pentagon figure out what's actually ...
In ukraine, the long—awaited news of the tank supplies has been greeted with relief and gratitude. president zelensky has been saying for weeks that defeating the russians would be extremely difficult without a significant supply of heavy weaponry. our correspondent andrew harding has been talking to people in the city of zaporizhzhia, not far from the frontline. explosion. ukrainian tanks, half a century old, battling near the front lines. in this area, close to the donbas town of bakhmut, russian forces are slowly gaining ground. and when we visited this tank unit last week, the mood seeme...
Confrontation. talking of new levels, the anti—west, into european rhetoric in the state media here has reached a new level. late last night one of state televisions main anchors made an astonishing comment about germany. he basically described german political leaders as cretans and nazis and said that when german tanks appear in ukraine that would make german territory in german bases the target for russia. so what's been the reaction to the news in ukraine? 0ur correspondent, andrew harding, has been gauging the mood in the city of zaporizhzhia, not far from the frontline. explosion. ukra...
That it's sending several challenger tanks. ukraine hopes these will help turn the tide in the war. the bbc�*s andrew harding has been with a tank unit near the eastern city of bakhmut and sent this report. lurking in a snowbound forest just behind the front lines, a cluster of ukrainian tanks. but these are ancient war horses, half a century—old — no match for russia's army. "they are just not suitable for this era," the commander admits. distant artillery fire they work, but the technology has moved on, which is why there is great excitement here about the prospect of new western machi...