World War II

...things that add value, he says. Because of that, he said O'Mara's items would bring probably $300-$500 at auction. "We have a lot of World War II collectors in Michigan," he says. "This would probably do well." It will stay in the family,...

In this article: Japan and Michigan

...: Thursday, 19 Nov 2009, 3:15 PM CST Adapted for Web by Tracy DeLatte, myFOXdfw.com DALLAS - As a B-24 bomber pilot in World War II, A.J. Hilliard landed a plane in the Pacific Ocean when the engine caught on fire. After getting...

In this article: Dallas, All rights reserved, B-24 bomber, Dallas Independent School District, Pacific Ocean, and Far East

Given that the United States was up against two military powers in Germany and Japan during World War II, and some American GIs spent more than three years fighting abroad before they were able to return home, it would seem that the...

In this article: Suicide, Iwo Jima, Stamford High School, Afghanistan, and Iraq

According to Dr Hans Van Tillburg, "[the I-201 submarine] was nothing like anybody had in the Second World War. It had a streamlined body and conning tower and retractable guns" and three catapult-launched bombers. They just found it in...

In this article: World War 2, Hawaii, Cholera, Typhus, US Navy, United States, Japan, and Soviets

Text Alerts: Get Local breaking news sent to your phone. Sign up here. Tuskegee Airmen visit school in South Bend World War II fliers share tales with students at Xavier. SOUTH BEND - Even as a child Julius Jackson loved airplanes.

In this article: Xavier School, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Harry S. Truman

...a 90-year-old former member of Hitler's SS with 58 counts of murder over a massacre of Jewish forced labourers in the final weeks of World War II. The man, named only as Adolf S., a member of the fifth SS Tank Division "Viking", is...

In this article: WWII, Defendant, Ideology, Simon Wiesenthal Centre, and United States

...to be the greatest sporting event in UK history and quite possibly the greatest security challenge that the UK has faced since the Second World War." Major militant attacks in Mumbai last November and Lahore earlier this year were a "sober...

In this article: WW2, UK, London, Alan West, Suicide, Royal United Services Institute, Royal Navy, Munich, Mumbai, and Lahore

Text Alerts: Get Local breaking news sent to your phone. Sign up here. World War II soldier receives long overdue honors COLOMA - When World War II ended, Frank Traficanto, an anti-tank gun crewman who fought in France and Germany,...

In this article: Fred Upton, Purple Heart, Coloma High School, Democracy, Veterans Day, Church of God of Prophecy, and Bronze Star

...Grossman, 89, is celebrated as the only surviving sibling of eight brothers who served in World War II. He is one of the nation's 2.3 million World War II veterans who are still living, including 75,485 in Michigan. He also is being hailed...

In this article: Tom Brokaw, Tom Hanks, Wal-Mart, and Franklin D. Roosevelt

Audio for this story from Morning Edition will be available at approx. 9:00 a.m. ET World War II veteran, flight engineer and B-24 ball turret gunner Walter Kush poses with his flight crew. Kush is at the left end of the front row. Greg...

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