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A new database with the names of some 70,000 Soviet prisoners of war held in Germany during the Third Reich is now available online, the Saxony state government said in a statement Monday.
Actors Tom Hanks, Patricia Clarkson and James Cromwell walked the red carpet Thursday before a private screening of the Hanks-produced war film "Beyond All Boundaries" held at the World War II Museum in New Orleans.
Actor Tom Hanks says viewers are in for a realistic "wartime experience" when the new film he produced, "Beyond All Boundaries," opens at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans on Friday.
For two decades after her son's bomber went down in the Pacific Ocean during World War II, Vella Stinson faithfully wrote the U.S. government twice a month to ask if his body had been found — or if anyone was looking.
Jack Harold Glenn was a World War II bomber navigator who was killed during a firefight as he flew a mission over Germany in 1944, his body coming to rest in a field in a rural village.
The famous battleship where Japanese officials signed the surrender documents that officially ended World War II played host on Wednesday to about 20 aging U.S. veterans and dozens of observers as they marked the 64th anniversary of the war's end.
On a wind-swept peninsula where shells lobbed from a German battleship ignited World War II 70 years ago, European leaders vowed Tuesday never to forget the lessons of the 20th century's bloodiest conflict.
Russia's prime minister on Monday condemned Moscow's 1939 treaty with Berlin that carved up Europe, as well as a British and French pact with the Nazis, in remarks published before the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II.
Seventy years ago Sunday, the Soviet Union signed a pact with Nazi Germany that gave dictator Josef Stalin a free hand to take over part of Poland and the Baltic states on the eve of World War II.
Japan's prime minister expressed deep regret over the suffering his country inflicted on Asian countries during World War II in a solemn ceremony Saturday that marked the 64th anniversary of Tokyo's surrender.
Poles and Germans set aside old rancor Friday and united in grief as they reburied the bones of 2,116 people believed to be German civilians killed in the final, vicious months of World War II.
A military inquiry on Wednesday blamed a navy captain's "errors of judgment" for one of Australia's worst maritime tragedies, in which 645 crew were lost when a cruiser was sunk by a German raider during World War II.
— August 2009: Josef Scheungraber, a 90-year-old former officer in the Nazi army, is convicted of murder for ordering the massacre of 10 civilians in a 1944 reprisal killing in Italy; sentenced to life. Scheungraber plans to appeal.
A 90-year-old former German army officer convicted of Nazi-era war crimes said Wednesday that the verdict against him was a "swindle."
Germans and Poles are laying ghosts of World War II to rest this week — more than 2,000 of them.
Officials say Hamburg harbor was closed for several hours after workers doing dredging work unearthed a World War II bomb from the bed of the Elbe river.
Three World War II veterans have been awarded the Legion of Honor by France for their military service.
After a decade-long search, a team of Baltic Sea divers has discovered the wreckage of a Soviet submarine that sank with dozens of sailors aboard during World War II, one of the divers said Tuesday.
As the Kremlin presses a campaign to recast Russia's 20th century history in a more favorable light, a research paper published Thursday on the Defense Ministry's Web site blamed Poland for starting World War II.
A funeral procession for a soldier killed in Germany during World War II abruptly ended at a Kansas City, Kan., cemetery when military officers realized they had the remains of the wrong soldier.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signaled support Friday for legislation that would make it a crime to belittle the Soviet Union's contribution to the Allied victory in World War II.
Serbian authorities are urging citizens to come forward with any information about the whereabouts of the grave of a World War II guerrilla leader who rescued American airmen shot down by the Nazis.
On the eve of World War II, curators at the Louvre swathed the museum's most priceless painting — the "Mona Lisa" — in layers of waterproof paper, boxed it up and spirited it to the French countryside for safekeeping. Leonardo da Vinci's smiling maiden moved another five times during the war before she was brought, safe and sound, back to the Louvre.
Tom Hanks is still on a mission when it comes to World War II.
Serbia's government has formed a special commission to try to locate the grave of a World War II guerrilla leader executed as a traitor by the Communists, officials said Monday.
Alejandro Ruiz (June 26, 1923 - November 20, 2009) PFC Ruiz was awarded the Medal of Honor on June 26, 1946, for his actions on Okinawa, the 28th of April, 1945. Congressional Medal of Honor Society page for PFC. Ruiz. Wiki page for PFC. Ruiz.NBC NightlyNews regarding PFC.
It's Never Too Early to Be Too LateA friend who optimistically believes every cloud has a silver lining hopes the tragedy at Fort Hood was merely the work of a volunteer in the Insane Clown Army and not a terrorist attack on an American army base in our supposedly safe homeland.
A Kinder, Gentler ResponseI earned and wore a Green Beret and have sons doing the same now against a different enemy. There still remains a similar Beltway mindset where strategy is planned by military leaders, then discarded by an Administration seemingly bent on the destruction of what we hold dear.
Australia OKs alleged Nazi's extraditionADELAIDE, Australia - The Australian government yesterday approved the extradition of an alleged Nazi collaborator Hungary accuses of a World War II killing.
Swastikas and Tinsel: How the Nazis Stole ChristmasMore than 30 years after Rita Breuer first began collecting Christmas knickknacks, selected objects from the family collection have gone on show at the National Socialism Documentation Center in Cologne.
Vandals target war memorialVandals in Kingston, MA knocked over a large slab of granite commemorating veterans of the Korean War, WW2 and WW1. Police also found more than 100 overturned headstones in the adjacent cemetary.
For the past hour, I've been watching a PBS documentary on these Amazing WWII vets, and others, who act as greeters to troops going to and coming back from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The one man army: How a Cambridge-educated botanist fought a three-year war against 4,000 Japanese troops n a new biography, historian Brian Moynahan recounts how the young officer successfully led a tiny resistance war that wrought such havoc on Japanese supply lines that local commanders were convinced they were looking for a 200-strong force of Australian guerillas and dispatched …
What Americans Owe to Those Who Serve[The 16 million Americans who served in the armed forces during World War II, who were sent across the ocean to defeat a brutal enemy] are old men now, the soldiers who remain; many are frail and in ill health.
From Balfour to a Palestinian stateNinety-two years ago today the British foreign secretary, Arthur James Balfour, sent the now famous letter, known as the Balfour Declaration, to Baron Rothschild to be transmitted to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.
Russia 'simulates' nuclear attack on Poland - TelegraphRussia simulates nuclear attack on Poland The armed forces are said to have carried out "war games" in which nuclear missiles were fired and troops practised an amphibious landing on the country's coast.
Is Obama More Truman or Carter? by Victor Davis HansonTruman and the Principles of U.S. Foreign Policy : Jimmy Carter rejected the postwar consensus. President Obama appears to be following a similar path.
China to search 1950 US bomber crash siteBEIJING - China will search for the remains of US victims from an Air Force bomber that crashed nearly 60 years ago, state media said yesterday, a gesture of good will just weeks ahead of President Obama's first visit to the country, on Nov. 15.
Medina: WW II veteran's color war films discoveredA World War II veteran is making another contribution to U.S. history, more than 60 years after the Bronze Star recipient served his country. Herman Graebner, 89, remembers virtually every detail of his four years in the U.S. Army.
The Great MythThe majority of Americans do not believe peace is possible due to what is essentially a universal myth. And that myth is that, "They've been fighting for thousands of years". That idea is completely and totally false.
Daniel Henninger: A Decadent Nobel"The committee said it chose Barack Obama for his "vision of . . . a world without nuclear weapons" and for "meeting the great climactic challenges the world is confronting." I'd say that completes the argument over old and new Europe. This is a Nobel of decadence."
Lest We Forget... We remember lives lost when a Battleship was destroyed at the beginning of WWII in Orkney...
I didn't write this, so I can't take the credit, but I laugh like crazy every time I happen across it. If World War Two had been an online Real Ttime Strategy game, the chat room traffic would have gone something like this.
TheStar.com | World | British woman unites with long-lost Canadian siblingsA feel good news story... Meets siblings at Pearson after seeking Star's help in finding war vet father Oct 04, 2009 04:30 AM Leslie Scrivener
Service Dogs Help Traumatized Veterans HealBy Amanda Gardner HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Sept. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Iraq war veteran Jennifer Pacanowski was unaware that she was racing dangerously down the freeway at 85 miles an hour when she felt a wet nose nudge her elbow.
Thought you might find these photos very interesting; what quality from 1941. Pearl Harbor photos PEARL HARBOR December 7th, 1941
The blogosphere is awash today in outrage over the president's seemingly inexplicable snubbing of a group of 26 World War II veterans. Conservative bloggers have seized the subject with some of the most robust announcements of "gotcha!" I've seen in a while.
Discussion on the Publication of Photographs of Wounded or Dying Soldiers...a large number of readers believe that journalists who insist on depicting the "horrors of war" are, in fact, advocating a pacifist political agenda — with one eye on a Pulitzer. More Articles
Get Out of Jail Free: Monopoly's Hidden Maps Help POW's Escape in WWIITired of the political wailing that passes for discourse here on the vine? Well here is a great story about how the game Monopoly became deadly serious for British and American POW's in Europe during WWII.
Dementia may have been caused by the Second World War claims scientist The dementia affecting hundreds of thousands of Britons may be a legacy of the Second World War, a scientist has claimed. Research presented at a conference in York yesterday suggested that traumatic stress can trigger Alzheimer's and other conditions.
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