world war ii
World's oldest Holocaust survivor dies in LI nursing home at age 113
Rose Girone, who once credited her longevity to dark chocolate, survived the Nazi horror of Kristallnacht and her husband’s time at a concentration camp to eventually move with her family...
Daniel Penny receives prestigious award from Marine Corps League at Iwo Jima event
"We were honored and humbled to be in the same room being honored alongside many veterans of prior wars, including an Iwo Jima veteran and a retired general who served...
More than 170 WWII bombs found under children's playground during construction at UK park
"It's quite something to think the children have been playing on bombs and it's been a really challenging situation,” Wooler councilor Mark Mather said.
Decorated pilot and one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen dead at 100
Stewart was one of the last surviving combat pilots of the famed 332nd Fighter Group also known as the Tuskegee Airmen.
Holocaust survivors gather for what may be the final time at 80th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation
The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops is being marked on Monday at the site of the former death camp, a ceremony that is widely being treated as...
Whatever Coca-Cola's politics may be, the drink's a gift to the world
In 1942, the Nazi apparatchik Otto Dietrich sniffed, “America never contributed anything to world civilization but chewing gum and Coca-Cola.”
WWII Allies refused to destroy Germany — now it's ruined itself
The harsh postwar 'Morgethau plan' would have rendered Germany incapable of ever starting another world war in Europe. Today, via green delusions and open borders, Germans have neutered themselves.
Lessons from 1925: look to the past to see what this New Year foretells
Some future events were predictable in 1925, if only people had paid attention.
Oldest living survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor dead at 105
Warren Upton was 105 years old.
Pelosi fell in her 'very high' heels, then powered through pain for a photo with a broken hip, GOP rep says
Powering through a broken hip, the former House speaker proceeded to stand for a group photo right after taking a nasty fall on the marble steps at the Grand Ducal...
100-year-old Pearl Harbor survivor recalls confusion and chaos during Japanese bombing 83 years ago
Two survivors of the bombing — each 100 or older — are planning to return to Pearl Harbor on Saturday to observe the 83rd anniversary of the attack that thrust the US...
Conservative influencer Candace Owens gets barred from New Zealand weeks after a ban from Australia
Owens is scheduled to speak at a series of events in several Australian cities and in Auckland, New Zealand, in February and March next year.
Europe preps for WWIII as secret docs reveal plans for 800K troops in case Russia invades NATO
The alarm is not contained to Germany. Sweden and Norway have also recently issued pamphlets and literature instructing citizens of how to prepare should the Ukraine War conflict boil over...
WWII vet who fought at Battle of the Bulge finally gets high school diploma — 82 years after dropping out
"I never expected to be honored like this," Anthony Simeone, of Cranston, Rhode Island, told the crowd at a ceremony last week. “I am so honored.”
Family unearths hidden WWII shelter in backyard: 'Oh my God, what have we discovered?'
This was no garden-variety find.
Painter Frank Auerbach, who fled the Nazis and became a major artist, dies at 93
Born in Berlin in 1931, Auerbach came to England in 1939 as one of six children sponsored by the writer Iris Origo.
Sunken US WWII warship that went down with more than 200 servicemen found after 81 years
An American World War II warship sunk by Japanese forces in a fierce battle a few months after the attack on Pearl Harbor has been discovered at the bottom of...
How giving kids too much sugar raises their risk for 2 chronic diseases
Sorry to dampen your spirits, trick-or-treaters.
Wreck of WWII ‘Ghost Ship of the Pacific' discovered off California in 'exceptional' condition
"Its story, from U.S. Navy service to Japanese capture and back again, makes it a powerful symbol of the Pacific War's complexity."
World War II-era bomb explodes at airport, leaving huge crater and forcing dozens of cancelations
Land and Transport Ministry officials said there were no aircraft nearby when the bomb exploded at Miyazaki Airport in southwestern Japan.