World War II

Sitting in a freezing cold cockpit at altitudes of more than 30,000ft for hours at a time with anti-aircraft shells often targeted at them, wartime aerial photography pilots risked death every time they took off on a secret reconnaissance...

In this article: World War 2, Royal Air Force, and Germany

...Preservation Program now offers a publication outlining the history of Arkansas sites that helped the battle against the Axis forces in World War II. Arkansas Historic Preservation Program Director Frances McSwain said the publication, We...

In this article: Arkansas, All rights reserved, and Associated Press

Alejandro R. Ruiz Sr., 85, an Army infantryman in World War II who received the Medal of Honor for single-handedly storming a Japanese machine gun bunker - twice - during the Battle of Okinawa, died Nov. 23 at a hospital in Napa, Calif. He...

In this article: Alejandro Renteria Ruiz, Medal of Honor, California, Harry S. Truman, Napa, Cattle, M1 Garand, and Battle of Okinawa

...frail from living on about 700 calories a day or less, weaved toward roll call as she had for years to bow before Japanese officers during World War II. Her mother, down to about 80 pounds after surviving off pigweed, walked clumsily beside...

In this article: Oklahoma, Cancer, Nichols Hills, Manila, Philippines, Pumpkin pie, and Silver

New Delhi, Nov 25: World War II vintage hand grenades - often dubbed as duds - in use with the Indian Army will finally be replaced with the defence ministry approving the indigenous mass production of the multi-mode grenade. Defence...

In this article: A.K. Antony, Defence Research and Development Organisation, Hand grenade, and New Delhi

The telegraph told the Maggarts that "The Happy Legend," a B-25 bomber, did not return from a routine attack in New Guinea during World War II. Seven long years passed before the family would get word that the seven-man crew including their...

In this article: Arlington National Cemetery, New Guinea, B-25 bomber, Western Union, Arlington, and Washington D.C

Concentrations of greenhouse gases, the major cause of global warming, are at their highest levels since the Second World War and still climbing, the UN has warned. Published: 7:09PM GMT 23 Nov 2009 The UN's World Meteorological...

In this article: WMO, Methane, Carbon dioxide, Second World War, UN, Global warming, Copenhagen, Barack Obama, and Cattle

THESE astonishing spy photos of bombing, ruined cities and Nazi prison camps from World War Two can now be seen by the public for thefirst time. The stark images taken on secret surveillance flights have been declassified60 years after...

In this article: Allan Williams, Winston Churchill, Dirk Bogarde, Rome, Berlin, and Paris

...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

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