World war II

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."

Freidrich Karl Berger, who had been living in Tennessee, was still receiving a pension from Germany for his time as a concentration camp during World War II.

We've transferred the weight of glory from the missions themselves to those who wear the uniform. We ache for heroes, especially in a time when our society is falling apart.

In August 1946, Newsweek reported from Athens, Tennessee, where veterans of World War II had won their final—and most unexpected—battle.

The attorney general was criticised by several public figures after he said lockdown rules were the biggest challenge to personal freedoms other than slavery.

President Donald Trump claimed the pandemic of 1918 contributed to the end of World War II, which started in 1939.

It has been 75 years since any nation used a nuclear weapon during wartime.

75 years ago, the world's first nuclear bomb was dropped. How did it change the nature of conflict, how do we now view the use of nuclear weapons and what will determine their use in the future?

On one occasion, asked how long it took him to decide to use the new device, he simply snapped his fingers.

The U.S. became the first, and to this day only, nation in the world to use a nuclear weapon against a foreign adversary on August 6, 1945.

Several Republicans rejected President Donald Trump's suggestion of delaying the 2020 presidential election, with GOP lawmakers noting Americans voted during the Civil War, two World Wars and a previous pandemic.

Red inverted triangles were used to identify political prisoners in concentration camps during the holocaust, as other symbols were used to identify other people imprisoned in concentration camps.