On Friday, the National WWII Museum in New Orleans introduced its final permanent exhibit to 44 living veterans of the Second World War, including Medal of Honor recipients, liberated Holocaust survivors and the public. The opening of the Liberation Pavilion was also
A LOST Nazi tank has been dragged from its watery grave after nearly 80 years, revealing the only surviving Panzer of its kind in the world. For decades, local legend said that the Nazis lost several tanks retreating across the Czarna Nida
A remote submersible has captured video of the first detailed look at the USS Yorktown and two Japanese aircraft carriers that were sunk during the Battle of Midway. The video captured scenes from the Yorktown as well as Akagi and Kaga, two
Ralph Baer’s childhood was stolen by the Nazis. The German-born Jew gained a semblance of revenge overseas, imagining a new way for children of all ages to play. Ralph Baer invented video games. A natural tinkerer as a child, he reclaimed his
The Catholic Church beatified a Polish family that sheltered Jews during World War II on Sunday, calling them “a ray of light in the darkness.” The Latin formula of the Ulma family’s beatification was signed by Pope Francis in August. A Mass took
A senior government official in Hungary came under sharp criticism Wednesday for praising the country’s World War II-era leader, an ally of Nazi Germany who is believed to have imposed Europe’s first anti-Jewish laws of the 20th century, as an exceptional head
The special football uniforms the Air Force Academy intends to wear, which honor pilots who launched an air attack on Japan as a response to the bombing of Pearl Harbor during World War II, have received mixed reactions from social media users.
Between 1943 and 1944, the reconnaissance units of the USAAF—the precursor to the U.S. Air Force—documented the evolving landscape of England, focusing primarily on American bases in the southern regions, well ahead of the digital era’s Google Earth. Over 3,600 of these
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida reaffirmed the nation’s anti-war pledge at a ceremony remembering the end of World War II. Kishida made the remarks in an address at Japan’s National Memorial Ceremony for the War Dead, hosted in Tokyo on Tuesday. “More
Fredric Arnold was a “reluctant warrior,” creative dynamo and decorated World War II combat pilot. He miraculously survived 50 missions of flying P-38 Lightning warplanes over North Africa and Europe. The death he witnessed and inflicted in war was in deep contrast