The Release Of The Documents About The Famous Battle of Midway Court Case
With the Battle of Midway as a backdrop, the US Navy found itself opening a war on a new front – the courtroom. On June…
Dread And Horror In The Holocaust: The Female-Only Ravensbrück Concentration Camp
Ravensbrück was the only concentration camp built by the Nazis specifically for women. Located 50 miles north of Berlin, it opened four months before the…
Legal Eagle Launched Career Defending Japanese War Criminals
After World War II, a 25-year-old legal secretary volunteered to help defend some of Japan’s worst war criminals in the “Tokyo Trials.” Now, at age…
The American Historian Who Took On A Holocaust Denier – Her Story Has Been Made Into A Movie
Deborah Lipstadt is a historian whose recent book, History on Trial, has been made into the movie, Denial. Ask her whether Holocaust denial is still…
Numerous Medals for Gallant Service Presented to US Pacific War Veteran’s Sister After 70 years
The family of a long-deceased American soldier, Lexie Lee Lillard, received not just one but many medals last Wednesday at Jay, Kentucky for his service…
World War II Veterans Return To The Skies With A Commemorative Flight On A Rare B-17 Bomber
For the two World War II veterans, their recent flight in a B-17G was nothing like those they experienced almost three-quarters of a century ago.…
This 81-Year-Old Japanese-American US Army Veteran Is Educating the Young About WW2 Internment
“It makes no difference if he is an American citizen or not. He’s still Japanese … I don’t want any of them here. They are…
The War Reporter Who Brought World War II Home To Americans And Died In The Line Of Duty
Ernie Pyle was a war correspondent from Indiana in World War II. On December 1, 1942, on assignment in Algiers, he wrote: “Life is completely…
American Marine’s Remains Make It Home to Nebraska 70 Years On
A Marine from Chadron, Nebraska, who died in World War II, is coming home. Sergeant Fae Verlin Moore was killed at the age of 23…
WWII Veterans Have Lessons To Teach Us All: One American Veteran Shares His Memories
Living through a harrowing experience, such as WWII, leaves many anxieties in its wake, the least of which are the dreams that your subconscious puts…
Babi Yar Massacre Site in Ukraine Marked with Holocaust Memorial
Ukraine will start planning a Holocaust Memorial at Babi Yar, a gulley near the country’s capital city of Kiev where 34,000 Jews were murdered by…
Bletchley Park Code Breakers – A Secret Letter From Eisenhower
Imagine today’s world without computers. Imagine a world of ciphers, secret letters, code breakers and secret intelligence centres – this is the stuff of which…