World war II

Though her body will remain in Monaco, a coffin carrying soils from places where she made an impact will be placed inside the Pantheon.

If enacted, a Genocide Education Trust Fund would be made under the bill to help create teaching materials and give training for educators.

Poland recently introduced new legislation making it harder for owners or inheritors to reclaim property seized by Communists after World War II.

The van Gogh piece is his 1888 watercolor work, "Wheatstacks," which shows three tall haystacks in a field next to harvest workers on a bright summer day.

The German sub-machine gun and several bullets are thought to date back to 1940.

Within 48 hours, nearly 34,000 Jewish Ukrainians were murdered in a ravine known as Babi Yar in the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv.

Vets are taken on short trips in a restored Boeing Stearman biplane, which was used to train aviators during World War II.

Archival research indicates that those who were killed were most likely members of the Polish resistance movement.

Thomas Rice jumped into Normandy on June 6, 1944 as part of Operation Overlord, otherwise known as D-Day.

"I just like to sing," said veteran John Pylman of his performance before a West Michigan Whitecaps minor league baseball game.

More than 1,100 military personnel died aboard the Arizona, more than any other ship, at Pearl Harbor.

The U.S. Army officer stationed at the de facto embassy in Taipei will reportedly appear on a Taiwan Defense Ministry educational program.

Ford announced that it is auctioning off a custom-built 2021 Mustang Mach-E that honors women who flew in WWII and supports modern women in aviation careers.

We must forever remember those we lost. However, we must also understand how to move forward.

The "old and rusty" device was later declared safe and detonated in a field in England.

The body was found in an unmarked grave close to a landing area for U.S. soldiers during Operation Market Garden in 1944.

Poland has returned or paid compensation for public Jewish areas, such as synagogues, prayer houses and cemeteries, but not private property.

The diver claimed he saw bodies, propellers and over 150 chests around the wreckage of the plane at the bottom of the lake in Canada's Quebec province.

Mornings on Memorial Day were always about honoring those who paid the ultimate sacrifice serving their country in uniform.

A bill in Russia would ban people from publicly comparing the Soviet Union's actions during World War II to Nazi Germany's.

The latest ruling follows one made in January which ordered Japan to compensate 12 women who were forced to work in wartime brothels each with 100 million won ($91,300).

Air Sergeant Simon Eliastam, of the South African Air Force, was flying a Bristol Blenheim on a training mission in 1942.

While President Biden's claim may be a talking point that is designed to highlight the sheer scale of the pandemic, the math has been criticized for simply not adding up.

Veterans must be enrolled in the Veterans Affairs health care system to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

Are we ready to exchange our prolonged adolescence for the mantle of a mature adult generation, released at last from our obsessive attachments to things that don't ultimately matter?

Halverson and other pilots were participants in "Operation Little Vittles," which dropped tons of candy to German children near the beginning of the Cold War.

The total number of COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. has now exceeded 291,557.

It's been 79 years since the attack on Pearl Harbor, which brought the United States into World War II. These photos from the battle are a stark reminder of those lost.

On the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, can understanding differing perspectives on the American flag at the Iwo Jima memorial help us understand the legacy of other statues—and whether they should still stand?

"it's not the people of yesteryear who have to live with these statues. Monuments are given pride of place in our public spaces, so we really need to weigh up what's more important to us: the memory of who we once were or the celebration of who we are now."