During World War Two, Dave Brubeck,who is white, formed one of the first racially mixed bands in the Army.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

(Choral Music) At London's Westminster Abbey, the Queen,Prime Minister and military leaders attended a remembrance service, the first one without a British World War I veteran in attendance.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

And he announced he would award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, posthumously to Jan Karski, an officer in the Polish underground during World War II, who provided one of the first eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust.

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The seed of today's FORBES GLOBAL was planted at an inauspicious time--in the worst days of a tragic, senseless world war, one that brought to an end the first great era of international commerce.

FORBES: 85 and kicking

His father, a poorly paid cellarman for a wine company, was killed in battle during the First World War, when Camus was one.

NEWYORKER: Facing History