World War II (Second World War, WWII)

One reason The Citadel was able to keep its doors open during WWII was the adoption of the Army's Specialized Training Program. ... Nearly 73 years after World War II ended, the conflict continues to be remembered on campus for the large numbers of cadets who dropped their education plans to defend ...

ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. — Back in World War II when the U.S. and Russia were allied against the Nazis, hundreds of Soviet aviators were trained on the North Carolina coast as part of a secret spy project – but now, an effort to honor their mission has triggered a miniature Cold War in a small American city.

He was a veteran of World War II and was aboard a ship sunk in the Pacific in a kamikaze attack. After the war, Wallace worked at various jobs, including at Bath Iron Works and building wooden boats. The lawsuit says that Douglas Wallace was in good health when he went for an appointment on Sept.

In honor of the 100th birthday of First Army, 98-year-old World War II veteran Jack Baker was honored in a public event Wednesday in Olive Hill, Kentucky. ... that he had literally been in every place and battle that had defined First Army's own history in WWII,” said First Army's commanding general, Lt. Gen.

What in the name of God prompts our pseudo-Churchills to play fast and loose with the Second World War? First of all, it was Theresa May saying that “not since” the Second World War had nerve agents been used in Europe. Then Boris Johnson did his poseur act against Russia under the wing of a replica ...

Area residents will have the opportunity to see a little piece of World War II history. The Collings Foundation is bringing the Wings of Freedom Tour from March 21 to 23 to the New Braunfels Regional Airport, 2333 FM 758, for the community to see the ins and outs of four planes that played roles in the war.

While women during World War II worked in a variety of positions previously closed to them, the aviation industry saw the greatest increase in female workers — including Vukelich. More than 310,000 women worked in the U.S. aircraft industry in 1943, making up 65 percent of the industry's total workforce ...

DENVER -- It was one of the most dangerous jobs you could have in the United States Navy during World War II, but Roy Christensen liked it. “Yes, I guess I did. I was just a youngster when I signed up." He wanted an adventure, “I was looking for more or less thrills and excitement, and I certainly achieved ...

Florence “Shutsy” Reynolds, 92, of Connellsville, who served as a Women Airforce Service Pilot during WWII, talks with her friend and current pilot Captain Michelle Williams prior to her 15-minute flight in a World War II-era Stearman plane at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport on July 01,2015 in Unity.

That is the day in 1940 when Greek prime minister Ioannis Metaxas said "Ochi" (No) to an ultimatum from Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, a World War II ally of Germany's Adolph Hitler. Mussolini, whose army already occupied neighboring Albania, demanded that Greece allow his army to enter Greece and ...

Everyone knows the iconic image of Rosie the Riveter, representing World War II women on the homefront. Waco resident, 92-year-old Louise Woodall was one of millions doing just that back in World War II. She recalled working in a Fort Worth factory in the 1940s working on one of the final parts of the ...

In this May 23, 2017 photo, at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, new propellers wait to be installed as part of the restoration of the World War II B-17 bomber known as the Memphis Belle near Dayton, Ohio. The restored plane will go on public display at the museum spring 2018. (Mitch Stacy/AP).

But the memory of its six-year Nazi occupation still stings—and for years, a spat over whether Germany owes reparations for its actions toward Poland during World War II has threatened diplomatic relations between the two countries. In March 2018 the issue boiled over again when Arkadiusz Mularczyk, ...

BANGKOK -- A piece of prized World War II U.S. naval history, the wreckage of the aircraft carrier USS Lexington, which was sunk by the Japanese in a crucial sea battle, has been discovered by an expedition funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The expedition team announced that the wreckage of ...

More than 70 years ago, during World War II, a U.S. pilot was shot down as he was flying over the Pacific. Over the decades, sand and sea life at the bottom of the ocean covered the wreckage, further obscuring it from view. But now, members of the U.S. armed forces have retrieved the remains of the pilot, ...

To say that World War II Navy veteran Linus Bishop saw action in the South Pacific would be a huge understatement. “It was hell, I'll tell you,” he recently said. “I didn't come home for two years and we were right in the middle of it (combat) the whole time. We saw a lot of action.” Linus, also known as "Casey ...

LAGUNA BEACH — Burying dead soldiers was tough to understand for an 18-year-old Army serviceman, but decades later, the somber task and the liberation that followed became an inspiration to World War II veteran George Ciampa and his efforts to help future generations recognize the cost of freedom.

Battlefield 2018 will be following in the successful footsteps of Call Of Duty: WWII, according to a new report from VentureBeat. The publication says the tentatively-titled Battlefield V will take the series back to its historical roots steeped in the grit and grime of World War II. The information was offered to the ...

Bluffton resident Paul Young piloted 57 missions during World War II. (Photo by Kayleen Reusser for The News-Sentinel). As a chief pilot of a B-25 during World War II, Paul Young of Bluffton flew 57 missions as part of the 12th Air Force. Some of his most treacherous missions were over the Brenner Pass in ...

Harrison, 19, of Detroit, was killed during the battle of Tarawa in World War II. (Photo: Department of Defense) ... A Marine from Isabella Township, Mich., whose body was identified 74 years after his death in the Pacific during World War II, will be laid to rest March 2 in Texas. Marine Corps Reserve Pfc.

Surely, one of the most obvious results of the WWII was “its unparalleled destructiveness. It was most visible in the devastated cities of Germany and Japan, where mass air bombing, one of the major innovations of the Second World War, proved much more costly to life and buildings than had been the ...

This London Airport Is Shut Down After Workers Found a World War II Bomb Nearby ... In a statement, Robert Sinclair, the airport's chief executive, said, “The airport remains closed this morning following the discovery of a World War Two ordnance in King George V Dock on Sunday.” Mayor of London Sadiq ...

Something was lost when the World War II generation vanished from the halls of Congress. Originally personified by young veterans like John Kennedy, Richard Nixon and Jerry Ford, who were elected to the House in the 1940s, the torch of memory was later held high by former Senate Republican leader ...

DENVER -- It's one thing to read about history, it's quite another to hear it from the people who were there. Three World War II veterans and one widow of a World War II Marine, all from the Claremont Park retirement community, spent the morning remembering and sharing memories with students at South ...