A Veterans Department official who sent a since-rescinded memo calling for the removal of an iconic photo of a Navy sailor kissing a woman in Times Square has been at the center of previous controversies in the past. Assistant Under Secretary for Health Operations RimaAnn Nelson sparked a firestorm, including calls for her to be […]
Feb. 28—MONONGAH — A bunch of people, Black and white, came out to help Asa Davison celebrate his 100th birthday Wednesday. That breakdown of pigment is worth noting, because the man known as “Mr. Asa ” is a World War II veteran who had to fight both the Japanese — and Jim Crow — during […]
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The number of antisemitic incidents registered in Denmark since the Oct. 7 attack on Israel that ignited the war in Gaza has reached levels not seen since World War II, the head of the Scandinavian country’s small Jewish community said Thursday. “We have seen the the biggest antisemitic wave in Denmark […]
Ukraine’s military has chosen a defensive strategy that echoes the German approach from WWII. Lacking enough troops to defend its huge territory, Nazi Germany opted for a mobile defense. Even an full-scale active defense has limitations and won’t help Ukraine seize back its land. In 1943, as the tide of war turned against the Third […]
ST. LOUIS – World War II began nearly 85 years ago, and now in 2024, a St. Louis family is celebrating the 100th birthday of WWII veteran Ken Luttrell. “Back at his 90th birthday party, he said, ‘I’ll see you all in ten years’ and he meant it,” Nancy Luttrell, daughter of Luttrell, said. While […]
Jan. 27—A Mary Pickford movie debuted the day Madge Houser Kean was born. Kean, known to friends and family as Granny, likely never saw the second-highest grossing movie of 1918, “Stella Maris”. Her life was too busy from the get-go on Jan. 21, 1918. But it was fun and cake last Sunday when the Weatherford […]
The remains of a World War II U.S. Army Air Force gunner from Central Florida will be buried in Leesburg on Sunday afternoon. ▶ WATCH CHANNEL 9 EYEWITNESS NEWS Staff Sgt. Franklin P. Hall remains lie in state at Beyers Funeral Home & Crematory in Lady Lake on Sunday. The public has been invited to […]
In many areas of Europe, it’s hard to escape the visual reminders of World War II’s devastating impact. Numerous buildings, bunkers, and military installations that survived the war, both in Germany and across the continent, attest to this. However, in the mid-1980s the discovery — or, rather, re-discovery — of three German U-boats entombed in […]
On a night when Carol Apacki had trouble sleeping, she found herself at the computer typing a search for “Rosie the Rocketer.” That was the name her dad had given his airplane during World War II, and she knew he had done some amazing things with it during the war. The first thing that came […]
This is the second of two stories. The first is “Survivors of Idaho’s World War II incarceration camp worry about a proposed wind farm near site.” The gnats are back, swarming near my face. But I, Lindsey Wasson, am a visitor and can leave whenever I want. My grandfather couldn’t. The expanse of sagebrush and […]
During the month of December, the 51st Lights for Peace flag to fly at the Fort Taber – Fort Rodman Military Museum honors the memory of PFC Irving Chandler Kaplan, of New Bedford, a WWII veteran who was killed in Germany in 1945. Kaplan, who lived at 26th Eight St., New Bedford, was born on […]
During World War II there were all sorts of technological innovations applied to a new kind of warfare, one that focused on destruction from the seas and skies. One of my favorite YouTube creators, a Scot named Calum, has covered the subject of one such fascinating failed innovation — the rescue bouy — at length, […]