Tag: WWII

Nonprofit and military team build home for family of Navajo WWII veteran

GALLUP, N.M. (KRQE) – The family of a World War II Navajo veteran is getting a special gift. It’s all thanks to a local nonprofit and other service members. “I am so happy and blessed – blessed about this house I’m getting. It means a lot to me,” expressed Alvin Malone, a son of a WWII veteran.       Alvin Malone […]

Remains of Charleston soldier killed in WWII identified

May 24—The expression commonly used within the U.S. military, “No man left behind,” continues to ring true today. Thanks in part to modern science, some previously unidentified military personnel who were killed while serving as far back as World War II are finally being honored for making the ultimate sacrifice. The remains of World War […]

Putin presides over WWII victory parade on Red Square

Russia commemorated the Soviet Union’s victory over Hitler’s Germany in 1945 with its traditional military parade on Thursday, the third such parade since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin was on hand at Moscow’s Red Square on a chilly morning amid light snowfall. Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu inspected Thursday’s parade. […]

Zelensky compares defence against Russia to WWII fight against Nazis

On the anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has compared his country’s current defence against a Russian invasion to Ukrainian efforts to the defeat of Nazi Germany. “Eighty years ago, millions of Ukrainians fought to defeat Nazism forever,” he said in a video message recorded during his […]

Czech president, looking back at WWII, sees ‘historical paradox’

The Czech Republic on Wednesday commemorated the end of World War II in Europe and the liberation from Nazi occupation 79 years ago with its annual act of remembrance. In a speech, President Petr Pavel noted that after “deep reflection,” the defeated Nazi Germany had become a democratic country committed to peace and stability in […]

U.K. court rules on $43 million of treasure from WWII shipwreck

South Africa has won a legal claim over $43 million worth of treasure from a World War II shipwreck that was found off the country’s coast by a British exploration company, the U.K. Supreme Court said on Wednesday. The sinking of the the SS Tilawa — which has been called the “Indian Titanic” — killed […]

Biden says military unable to recover uncle’s remains during WWII because ‘there used to be a lot of cannibals’ in New Guinea

President Joe Biden on Wednesday suggested twice that the United States was unable to recover his uncle Ambrose Finnegan’s remains after Finnegan’s plane crashed near New Guinea during World War II, “because there used to be a lot of cannibals” in the region. Biden’s accounting of his uncle’s death — and possible cannibalization — differs […]