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
Mar 18 German leader calls novel coronavirus biggest challenge since WWII By Kirsten Grieshaber, Associated Press She said everyone in Germany must help protect those most vulnerable to infection, illness and death. Continue reading
Jun 05 Watch 8:42 In Normandy, gratitude and grief ahead of D-Day’s 75th anniversary By Malcolm Brabant In 1944, thousands of Allied soldiers landed on five different beaches in Normandy. The operation set the stage for liberation of German-occupied France during World War II. For those who participated in the critical mission, the challenges they faced and… Continue watching
Jun 17 Watch 6:16 ‘They didn’t let racism win’ — The story of an interracial couple on opposite sides of WWII By Ivette Feliciano, Zachary Green During World War II, Elinor Powell, an African American nurse, joined the racially segregated army in Jim Crow-era Arizona. The discrimination she faced compounded after she fell in love with Frederick Albert, a German prisoner of war to whom she… Continue watching
Sep 03 Experts defuse WWII bomb in Frankfurt after 60,000 ordered to evacuate By Rebecca Oh Construction workers found the British bomb, which weighed around 1.8 tons, on Tuesday in the German financial capital. Continue reading
Feb 12 WWII bomb defused in Greece; 70,000 evacuees heading home By Costas Kantouris, Associated Press Authorities in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki say an unexploded World War II bomb found under a gas station was defused Sunday and safely taken to an army firing range outside the city, paving the way for over 70,000… Continue reading
Jul 19 Mitsubishi apologizes for using American POWs as laborers in WWII By Kenzi Abou-Sabe Senior executives from Mitsubishi Materials held a press conference at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles on Sunday to formally apologize for using American prisoners of war as forced laborers during World War II. Continue reading
May 08 D.C. opens restricted airspace over national monuments for WWII flyover By Joshua Barajas, Ariel Min More than 50 World War II aircraft flew over the nation’s capital Friday to commemorate Nazi Germany’s defeat to the Allies 70 years ago. Continue reading
Feb 11 As Obama requests military force, a brief history of war power By Domenico Montanaro, Lisa Desjardins, Rachel Wellford, Simone Pathe Today in the Morning Line: Details emerge of Obama’s request to Congress for military authorization to fight the Islamic State group A brief history of war power tension The U.S. hasn’t declared war since WWII, plus all 11 times… Continue reading
Nov 15 Watch Family history comes to life: Dress designs lost in Holocaust uncovered By PBS News Hour When the Nazis occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939, tens of thousands of Jews applied for visas to anywhere. Among them, Paul Strnad and his wife Hedy, a dress designer. Ultimately, neither would get a visa to leave Czechoslovakia. Now, in an… Continue watching