Temora, a five-hour drive west of Sydney, with a rich aviation history as the site of Australia's biggest pilot-training school during World War II, was already a center for sport aviation activities such as gliding, parachuting and aerobatics.
However, they were familiar with the war through school, and many had fathers, grandfathers or uncles who fought.
School children study World War II, but they usually learn about the evacuations and the Blitz, which affected many millions.
Both Walker and Evers were drafted out of high school to fight in World War II.
Two teenagers whose fingers were cut off in a game of tug-of-war at a school in California are awake and alert after surgery, a medical official says.
When my classmates and I were grinding through U.S. History in high school and hit the Vietnam War in the final weeks before the exam, we had only been fighting in Iraq for about a month.
An East Lothian school has been evacuated after World War II grenades were discovered.
Nobody just hops out of the cradle or graduates from nursery school and sits down and writes War and Peace.
It was only on the prompting of his mother than he enrolled in a drama school after the end of World War II.
Greenberg fought in the Army in World War II, got a law degree at New York Law School (not to be confused with New York University School of Law) in 1950 and served in the Army again in the Korean War.
The second world war was not on the school curriculum until 1962.
My old friend, Ted, who grew up with me through grade school and high school, lost his mind in that war and later took his life.
Frederick Terman, an engineer who joined the faculty in 1925, became the dean of the School of Engineering after the Second World War and the provost in 1955.
Efron, best known for playing Troy in the High School Musical movies, played an Iraq war vet looking for a woman whose photo he believed helped save his life.
This is the shortest of the Potter movies at two hours, 10 minutes, but the tempo is exactly right, rising and falling as Harry's fortunes bring him back to Hogwarts in search of the last horcrux and the school becomes a battleground -- a war zone -- for the eternal fight between good and evil.
"I was a school boy in Holland, and during World War II, " he said.
But the notion that her elementary school pals could someday fight in the same war should blow the American mind.
It lasted 15 years with an estimated 150, 000 dead and yet, the war is not even mentioned in school history books, says playwright Rabih Mroue.
The two, both aged under 18, were participating in a lunchtime game of tug-of-war at South El Monte High School near Los Angeles on Monday.
This was made clear during a high-level war game at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government earlier this month.
Botros fought a bitter war with the much more traditional Catholic school across the way, sometimes winning battles.
The school held a performance of Britten's famous War Requiem in March as part of the composer's centenary birthday celebrations.
Born in Dundee, he served in World War II and later studied at Slade School of Fine Art before relocating to Paris.
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But the French, when they took over the new state of Lebanon after the first world war, favoured the priests and their school.
He was born in Ealing, went to Hendon grammar school, and served in the Army during the war, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
This wasn't a clot of esoteric names and dates I'd dozed through in high school history, like the Habsburg Succession or the War of Jenkins's Ear.
Friedrich Hayek had to flee when the London School of Economics was moved to Cambridge during World War II (his friend and intellectual rival John Maynard Keynes apparently helped him find accommodations).
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