Polish archaeologists who found the grave of a German soldier discovered even more historic artifacts amid the exhumation of the remains. The grave was found in Wdecki Landscape Park, a nationally ...
The wreckage of the USS Edsall, an American warship that was sunk during a battle with Japanese forces in World War II, has been discovered more than 80 years after it was lost at the bottom of ...
Witold “Victor” Brick stood from his wheelchair with the help of his daughter as his name was called at the annual Veterans Day Observance and wreath laying ceremony at the World War II ...
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Dr. Robert Shoss looks over a collection of WWII artifacts pertaining to his late father, U.S. Army Lt. Milton Shoss, on Oct. 21 at Dr. Shoss’ home in Albany. West Point graduate Milton Shoss ...
WASHINGTON — Harry Miller said he was always fascinated by the World War I veterans he watched marching at parades in his hometown of Columbus, Ohio. Orphaned as a child, he said the veterans ...
Syracuse, Nebraska — Gerri Eisenhauer's father, Army Pvt. William Walters, was shipped off to World War II before she was even born. In 1944, her family got back his body and a U.S. government ...
European and world leaders strongly condemned the antisemitic attacks on Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam late Thursday night, which King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands said were reminiscent ...
Edward John Clutesi was killed in battle on Aug. 29, 1944, according to a letter to his mother from the Canadian Forces. He was 26 years old. "That's young," Tseshaht Hereditary Chief Josh ...
A mysterious volcanic comet has just reawoken, unleashing four major eruptions in less than 48 hours and spraying out enough of its icy guts to make the city-size object appear almost 300 times ...
In Steve McQueen’s moving World War II drama “Blitz,” Saoirse Ronan puts an entire life into a song. Her character Rita, who works in a munitions factory, has just sent her 9-year-old son ...