Dec 05 Watch 5:27 Remembering Bob Dole: Veteran, GOP presidential nominee, Kansas senator By PBS NewsHour Robert “Bob” Dole, who led the Republican party in the Senate for decades and was its presidential candidate, died on Sunday at 98. A veteran who was injured in World War II, and a politician for more than 50 years,… Continue watching
Dec 04 Edward Shames, last ‘Band of Brothers’ officer, dies at 99 By Associated Press Edward Shames, a World War II veteran who was the last surviving officer of “Easy Company,” which inspired the HBO miniseries and book “Band of Brothers,” has died. He was 99. Continue reading
Dec 01 WWII bomb explodes at Munich construction site, injuring 4 By Associated Press Trains to and from that station, one of Germany’s busiest, were suspended but service resumed in mid-afternoon. Continue reading
Mar 25 WWII codebreaker Alan Turing honored on UK’s new 50-pound note By Pan Pylas, Associated Press The rainbow flag flew proudly Thursday above the Bank of England in the heart of London's financial district to commemorate World War II codebreaker Alan Turing, the new face of Britain's 50-pound note. Continue reading
Jan 27 Auschwitz survivors mark anniversary online amid COVID-19 pandemic By Vanessa Gera, Associated Press Holocaust survivors are commemorating their lost loved ones as the world marks the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Continue reading
Sep 17 Watch 6:37 Gehry-designed Eisenhower Memorial unveiled after 20 years — during a fraught moment By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport A new memorial is being dedicated in Washington, D.C., to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who also served as the supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe during World War II. The four-acre memorial comes to fruition after 20… Continue watching
Sep 02 WATCH: Department of Defense commemorates 75 year anniversary of WWII’s end By Caleb Jones, Associated Press On Wednesday, the 75th anniversary of the surrender, some of those same men who served the United States will not be able to return to the Missouri in Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor because of the world’s new war against the coronavirus. Continue reading
Sep 02 WATCH: Trump designates Wilmington, N.C., as nation’s first World War II Heritage City By Kevin Freking, Associated Press Congress passed a bill earlier this year that included a provision requiring the secretary of the interior to annually designate one city in the United States as an “American World War II Heritage City.”… Continue reading
Sep 02 WATCH: National WWII Museum commemorates 75 year anniversary of war’s end By Associated Press Wednesday is the anniversary of the formal Sept. 2, 1945, surrender of Japan to the United States, when documents were signed officially ending years of bloody fighting in a ceremony aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. Continue reading
Aug 07 Watch 6:26 The intrepid journalist who exposed Hiroshima’s horror By Jeffrey Brown After the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, it was another year before first-hand accounts emerged. Journalist John Hersey helped expose the bomb’s lasting damage, which the U.S. government tried to downplay. In a new book, “Fallout,” which… Continue watching