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Wed., June 5, 2019
’Thank you’: Queen honors D-Day veterans at moving ceremony
Queen Elizabeth II and world leaders including U.S. President Donald Trump gathered Wednesday on the south coast of England to honor the troops who risked and sacrificed their lives 75 …
UPDATED: Wed., June 5, 2019
‘Woo-hoo!’ At 97, D-Day veteran parachutes into Normandy
Parachutists are jumping over Normandy again, just as soldiers did 75 years ago for D-Day – but this time without being shot at. Engines throbbing, C-47 transport planes dropped group …
Fri., May 24, 2019
WWII Code Talker and longtime NM lawmaker dies at 94
John Pinto, a Navajo Code Talker in World War II who became one of the nation’s longest serving Native American elected officials as a New Mexico state senator, has died. …
Fri., May 24, 2019
Ready, aim, oops! Historic tank turns lemon-lime yellow
A Korean War era tank owned by the West Virginia National Guard has turned bright lemon-lime yellow. The reason was a mystery until the sponsor of a science fiction club …
Tue., May 21, 2019
WWII plane rescued from boneyard to join D-Day anniversary
Filled with paratroopers, a U.S. warplane lumbered down an English runway in 1944 to spearhead the World War II D-Day invasion with a message for Adolf Hitler painted in bright …
Fri., May 17, 2019
A separate war: Pioneering black Marines endured, prevailed
It was the dress blue uniforms that drew John Thompson to join the U.S. Marines, where black men were not welcome, so he could defend a country that denied him …
Tue., May 14, 2019
Poland’s report on WWII damages readied for war anniversary
A study commissioned by the Polish government to assess the cost of Nazi Germany’s occupation will be published on the 80th anniversary of the start of World War II, on …
Mon., May 13, 2019
Denied graves by Nazis, resistance fighters finally buried
Executed for standing up against Adolf Hitler’s dictatorship and then denied graves so as not to become a rallying point for others, the partial remains of 300 Nazi resistance fighters …
Thu., May 9, 2019
One by one, D-Day memories fade as war’s witnesses die
One more funeral, one less witness to the world’s worst war. Bernard Dargols lived almost long enough to join the celebrations next month marking 75 years since the D-Day, 75 …
Wed., May 8, 2019
Auschwitz Museum protests death camp images on skirts, bags
The Auschwitz Memorial and Museum has complained to an e-commerce site that was selling miniskirts, tote bags and other items printed with photos of the former Nazi German death camp …
Thu., May 2, 2019
Young Jews march in Poland to remember Holocaust victims
Thousands of young Jews from around the world joined Holocaust survivors and politicians Thursday for an annual Holocaust remembrance march in southern Poland that focuses on fighting anti-Semitism and hatred.
UPDATED: Wed., May 1, 2019
Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day with solemn ceremony
Israel has begun commemorating its Holocaust Remembrance Day in memory of the 6 million Jews killed by Nazi Germany and its collaborators in World War II.
Thu., April 25, 2019
Italy marks liberation anniversary as some glorify Mussolini
Italian leaders on Thursday marked Liberation Day, which celebrates the end of the country’s Fascist dictatorship during World War II, with appeals against glorifying dictator Benito Mussolini.
UPDATED: Fri., April 19, 2019
Warsaw synagogue ‘reappears’ on anniversary of ghetto revolt
The Great Synagogue of Warsaw, which was destroyed by German forces during World War II, made a brief reappearance as an apparition of light during commemorations for the Ghetto Uprising …
UPDATED: Wed., April 17, 2019
Greek PM says he will revive bid for German WWII reparations
Greece’s prime minister says his government will formally revive a long-standing demand for Germany to pay vast reparations for the World War II Nazi occupation.
Wed., March 27, 2019
Tlingit Code Talkers feted in Alaska for World War II role
Army veteran Richard Bean Sr. took his wartime secret to the grave, dying a hero without anyone knowing about it for decades. Now Bean and four other long-deceased Alaska Natives …
Sun., March 10, 2019
Jayita Sarkar: How World War II shaped the crisis in Myanmar
Declassified records from British archives reveal that the origins of the current plight of the Rohingya people in Myanmar can be traced to their participation in World War II.
UPDATED: Wed., Feb. 20, 2019
Sailor in iconic V-J Day Times Square kiss photo dies at 95
The ecstatic sailor shown kissing a woman in Times Square celebrating the end of World War II has died. George Mendonsa was 95.
UPDATED: Tue., Jan. 22, 2019
Russia, Japan make no visible progress on WWII territorial spat
The leaders of Russia and Japan acknowledged Tuesday that settling a decades-long territorial dispute poses a daunting challenge but vowed to continue negotiations. The Soviet Union took the four southernmost …
Mon., Dec. 17, 2018
Then and Now: George Washington Carver USO Club
Rosa D. Malone arrived in Spokane as a Works Progress Administration supervisor and founded the Booker T. Washington Community Center in the basement of Calvary Baptist Church in 1937.
Tue., Dec. 11, 2018
Spokane Valley woman discovers World War II veteran father, far-flung family from DNA kit
Bobi Sussman had all but given up discovering what happened to her biological father. A submission to an online DNA ancestry website revealed not only that Army Cpl. Charles Marse …
UPDATED: Sat., Dec. 8, 2018
Last local Pearl Harbor veteran honored at Spokane Memorial Arena
The Greatest Generation never forgets, especially on Dec. 7.
UPDATED: Fri., Dec. 7, 2018
Memories in stone: How Spokane’s Pearl Harbor Memorial came to be
Spokane’s Pearl Harbor Memorial, originally unveiled in 2014, was the realized through the efforts of many individuals.
Sat., Nov. 10, 2018
Trove of war posters discovered at New Hampshire library
One poster in a recently discovered trove vilifies the Nazis with a sword through a Bible and the words “This Is the Enemy.” Some encouraged self-sacrifice by promoting recycling, planting …
UPDATED: Fri., Nov. 9, 2018
WWII Army nurse, now 98, honored as hero in Seattle
When nurse Frances Harman learned her older brother, Jim, had been called to Army service during World War II she quickly decided not to be left behind.
Mon., Aug. 13, 2018
Then and Now: Baxter General Hospital
As World War II began in earnest, the wounded returning from war overwhelmed the military hospital system and new hospitals were planned. In 1942, city of Spokane donated 160 acres …
UPDATED: Fri., July 27, 2018
Pentagon identifies Tuskegee Airman missing from World War II
The Defense Department announced Friday that it has accounted for the first of more than two dozen black aviators, known as Tuskegee Airmen, who went missing in action during World …
Fri., July 27, 2018
At 100, Orville Rogers misses world record chance in Spokane but hopes for strong weekend on track
World War II veteran Orville Rogers was sidelined Thursday in an attempt to set the world record for the fastest 800-meter race by a man over the age of 100. …
Sat., July 21, 2018
David Von Drehle: How can you forget?
Lately, I can’t shake the image of a young man on a battlefield in France or the South Pacific. It’s 1944. He’s dying – one more incremental death amid the …
Fri., July 13, 2018
Shot down in Germany, veteran’s remains returned to Idaho
Seventy-three years after his bomber was shot down over East Germany, Staff Sgt. Charles H. Daman has come home.