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The atomic bomb, a world-changing invention, inflicted suffering and launched the nuclear age
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (421+ words) Sometimes inventions save countless lives. Sometimes they end just as many. Sometimes, they do both. The United States dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare on Aug. 6, 1945. The olive-green steel cylinder called “Little Boy” exploded above Hiroshima, Japan,…...
Prunella Scales on how Timothy West marriage remained unchanged over 60 years
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (136+ words) Holly Patrick | Tuesday 28 October 2025 10:38 GMT Prunella Scales reflected on how her marriage to Timothy West remained unchanged over 60 years in a moving 2023 interview. The video has resurfaced after Scales’s death on Monday, 27 October. Scales told the BBC that West was…...
How Steven Spielberg helped an Auschwitz survivor to become a warrior against hate
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (796+ words) 101-year-old Ginette Kolinka is one of the last remaining French survivors of the Nazi death camp Ginette Kolinka has developed a definitive answer to those who question her about the horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau. “If I had a child, well, I…...
How Gary Sinise is helping the nonprofit CreatiVets build ‘a place to go when the PTSD hits’
10+ mon, 2+ day ago (1292+ words) Richard Casper shakes his head as he touches one of the boarded-up windows in the once-abandoned church he plans to transform into a new 24-hour arts center for veterans. The U.S. Marine Corps veteran and Purple Heart recipient said he was…...
Veteran says bad memories need ‘weeding out’ as he marks D-Day anniversary
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (424+ words) A British veteran who travelled to Normandy to mark the 82nd commemoration of D-Day said some of his more traumatic memories need “weeding out” and still disturb his sleep. Ken Hay, 100, attended a remembrance service at the General Montgomery monument in…...
Display about Black soldiers removed from World War II US military cemetery
9+ mon, 4+ week ago (630+ words) The information panels were removed following ‘an internal review of interpretive content,’ according to the American Battle Monuments Commission An American military cemetery in the Netherlands has reportedly removed a pair of display panels discussing the 174 Black soldiers buried at…...
New film 'Nuremberg' highlights psychiatrist who analyzed Hermann Göring
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (620+ words) A once-overlooked army psychiatrist tasked with analyzing Hermann Göring and other Nazis accused of war crimes is getting the kind of attention that he had sought in his lifetime. EDITOR’S NOTE — This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or…...
A cemetery highlighted the war sacrifices of Black Americans. Trumpâs âanti wokeâ policies removed them
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (900+ words) Visitors to a US military cemetery in the southern Netherlands have voiced strong objections after two displays honouring Black troops, instrumental in liberating Europe from the Nazis, were removed. The American Battle Monuments Commission, a US government agency, took down…...
Two in three Gen Z adults ‘don’t know VE Day marks end of Second World War’
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (630+ words) The Royal British Veterans Enterprise said it shows “a gap in public understanding of military service past and present” Two-thirds of Gen Z adults are unaware VE Day marks the end of the Second World War, a new poll has…...
Lt. Col. George E. Hardy, youngest Tuskegee Airman, dies at 100
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (420+ words) Lt. Col. George Hardy, the youngest fighter pilot of the Tuskegee Airmen, the nation's first Black military pilots, has died. He was 100. Hardy was the last surviving combat pilot of the Tuskegee Airmen who went overseas. He died last week,…...