American liberators of Nazi camps got ‘a lifelong vaccine against extremism’ − their wartime experiences are a warning for today
A historian of the Mauthausen concentration camp says US troops and the Spanish antifascists they freed were united in a ...
Israeli strike on Gaza school allegedly kills 31 Palestinians, many kids, but IDF says it hit Hamas
Authorities in Hamas-ruled Gaza accuse Israeli forces of a "heinous massacre" with a strike on a school they say killed ...
The National Interest2d
Messerschmitt Me 262: How the Nazis Built the World’s First Jet Fighter
The jet boasted a top speed of approximately 540 miles per hour, far surpassing the fastest Allied piston-engine fighters.
How Black paratroopers saved the US from Japan’s WWII firebombs
Sgt. Joe Harris was one of an elite group of Black paratroopers during World War II. He is being laid to rest today. He was ...
The Daily News3d
Eyes that remember: York students experience first Holocaust Learning Day
Never visit Poland while I’m still alive. “You’d see the effect of the war in my eyes,” his father, Henry, had warned him. "Hearing these stories firsthand — that’s something students carry with them.
Maya Angelou memoir, Holocaust book are among those pulled from Naval Academy library in DEI purge
Books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou's famous autobiography, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," were among the nearly 400 volumes removed from the U ...
Mansion Global3d
‘The Father of Radar’—Whose Work Helped Win WWII—Lived in This Newly Listed London House
The six-bedroom, five-bathroom 1920s property with a heated swimming pool has a blue plaque honoring its former resident Sir ...
Fateful final mission of WWII bomber that was shot down by Nazis with one survivor - as it is found at bottom of Aegean Sea 82 years later
Leslie Norman Row, from Gravesend, Kent, was flying a mission over the Mediterranean when his Baltimore Bomber was attacked ...
MinnPost4d
‘Secret Warriors’ brings to light work of Japanese-American soldiers during WWII
The soldiers served as a key part of U.S. intelligence, but nearly 50 years passed before their efforts became public.
Reading Eagle5d
Reading NAACP honors local member of famed all-Black women’s WAC unit
The event was part of a larger effort by the NAACP Pennsylvania Conference to identify the graves of and honor the 17 ...
Smithsonian Magazine5d
Carrots Can’t Help You See in the Dark. Here’s How a World War II Propaganda Campaign Popularized the Myth
The British government claimed that eating carrots helped its fighter pilots shoot down German planes at night. In truth, the ...
Opinion: Helping CT students understand WW II and the usable past
I stood in my Connecticutco classroom deciding how to respond to my students’ “lessons from WW2.”  After a long silence, I ...