Videos of the USS Arizona, past and present. 1,177 members of the crew of the U.S.S. Arizona were killed as the battleship exploded and sank during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The bodies of more than 900 remain entombed in the vessel, which serves as a memorial for all who died during the attack.... Read more»
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Pearl Harbor Address to Congress: “Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.” (with video)... Read more»
A member of World War II’s storied Tuskegee Airmen died at age 90 in Tucson on Saturday. Lt. Col. Luke Weathers Jr., one of the Army Air Force’s pioneering group of black fighter pilots, will be buried with full honors in Arlington National Cemetery.... Read more»2
Austrian museums employ teams of researchers who comb through their collections, trying to identify which artwork came into their possession through theft by Nazi forces.... Read more»
Guns from the USS Arizona and USS Missouri now rusting on the East Coast would become part of the state’s monument to its namesake battleship if proponents can raise $500,000 to move them.... Read more»1
Did Adolf Hitler supply Aryan blow-up sex dolls to discourage his troops from sleeping with disease-ridden French prostitutes?... Read more»1
Monday is Victory Day in Moscow. The holiday—started during the presidency of Vladimir Putin—has achieved a grandiose level of pageantry, but glosses over the country’s role in WWII.... Read more»
Even the military - fastidious about taking care of its fallen members - lost track of Staff Sgt. Jerry Sorensen, buried in an “isolated grave” in Belgium in World War II. But while Sorensen may have been forgotten in Washington, D.C., he was never alone, thanks to the devotion of one Belgian woman.... Read more»1
In a country with no unifying ideology beyond WWII victory, parade honors history while overlooking tensions of today... Read more»
For a group of high school students visiting from New Jersey, talking with 89-year-old Pavel Stransky was like having a character from a history book step off the page to recall a love story that collided with the darkest days of the Holocaust.... Read more»
B-17 pilot Col. Richard Bushong, 86, is a Tucsonan who flew 28 combat missions over Europe during World War II. Monday, Bushong was on hand with the B-17 “Liberty Belle” to talk about his experiences. With photo gallery.... Read more»
Forensic nuclear scientists have determined that bits of uranium found last year in a Dutch scrapyard came from a Nazi nuclear program... Read more»
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