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Carlsbad’s Nancy Stratford, now 106, is the last survivor of the 25 American women pilots who served in the Royal Air Force’s ...
Zamperini's dream of participating in the 1940 Tokyo Olympics was thwarted by World War II. The games were canceled and he ...
One woman wondered back in September if it was her grandfather, Richard Yarling. We try to find out if he was the oldest ...
Jake Larson, the World War II veteran and social media star known as "Papa Jake," has died, his granddaughter posted on his ...
Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.
A gripping and meticulous new history shines a much-needed light on women in the Italian anti-Fascist resistance during World War II and how the resistance worked with the Allied forces to help end ...
On June 4, 1944, the US Navy captured its first German submarine. Now it's displayed at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science ...
Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers.
Berlin's Final Battle delves into the dramatic and brutal final days of the Third Reich as Soviet forces closed in on the German capital. Witnessing the intense street-to-street fighting, Waffen SS ...
As 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, the 'Forced To Leave' exhibit at the UAMN highlights Alaska's ...
WSAZ’s Hannah Hayes has the story of a World War II veteran who’s our latest Hometown Hero. At 102 years old, U.S. Army ...
Eight decades after the 1709 violin known as the "Small Mendelssohn" disappeared, experts think they've located it in Japan ...