World War II
Killed at Pearl Harbor, World War II sailor comes home
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.— A Saturday funeral is slated for an Alabama sailor killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor nearly 80 years ago. New outlets reported Friday the graveside service was planned for Johnnie Cornelius Laurie of Bessemer. He was a 25-year-old Navy mess attendant on board the battleship Oklahoma when it was hit by …
Deep-sea explorers seek out sunken World War II ships
MIDWAY ATOLL, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (AP) — Deep-sea explorers scouring the world’s oceans for sunken World War II ships are honing in on debris fields deep in the Pacific, in an area where one of the most decisive battles of the time took place. Hundreds of miles off Midway Atoll, nearly halfway between the United …
The fake news that pushed US into World War II
On Oct. 27, 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt took the stage at The Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC, to speak in honor of Navy Day. With Britain under Nazi siege, Roosevelt wanted the United States to join the fight. The American public was not convinced. “I have in my possession a secret map made by …
5 dead in World War II plane crash at Connecticut airport
At least five people are dead after a World War II plane crashed at Bradley International Airport in Connecticut on Wednesday, officials said. The vintage Boeing B-17 crashed at 9:54 a.m. at the end of a runway while trying to land, sending plumes of smoke into the air, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). …
Trump cancels trip to Poland, says he is staying in the U.S. to monitor Hurricane Dorian
Felicia Sonmez National reporter on The Washington Post’s breaking political news team August 29 at 4:46 PM President Trump announced Thursday that he is canceling a planned trip to Poland and will remain in the United States to monitor Hurricane Dorian, which is headed toward a potential landfall in Florida or elsewhere along the East …
Marking World War II milestones
PARIS — For Allied troops in Europe, D-Day was just the beginning of a long and bloody push toward victory over the Nazis. Ten weeks after commemorating the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France is paying tribute this week to Allied troops involved in another major, but often overlooked, military operation: landings …
World War II Soldier Returns Home To Be Laid To Rest With Family – CBS Boston
MARLBORO (CBS) – A World War II soldier received a hero’s welcome home Thursday as his remains arrived back in Boston. Technical Sergeant Alfred R. Sandini, of Marlboro, will be laid to rest beside his family 75 years after he was killed in action. Sandini died in French Indochina in 1944, when enemy fire caused …
What Ben Ferencz, the last Nuremberg prosecutor alive, wants the world to know – 60 Minutes
It is not often you get the chance to meet a man who holds a place in history like Ben Ferencz. He’s 99 years old, barely five feet tall, and he served as prosecutor of what’s been called the biggest murder trial ever. The courtroom was Nuremberg; the crime, genocide; and the defendants, a group …
Battle of Tarawa: Graves of 30 U.S. Marines, sailors found on Pacific World War II battlefield
Honolulu – A nonprofit organization that searches for the remains of U.S. servicemen lost in past conflicts has found what officials believe are the graves of more than 30 Marines and sailors killed in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. A team working on the remote Pacific atoll of Tarawa found the …
Did Nazi Germany’s Technology Turn America Into a Military Superpower?
Before the guns fell silent in 1945, the Allies had already drawn up plans for gathering as much German technology as they could take. The German war machine had caused untold destruction across the continent, and German technology was reputed to be cutting age. Weapons like the V-2 missile, the Me 262 jet fighter, and …
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