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Army veteran tasked with prosecuting Nazi death squads awarded Congressional Gold Medal
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (591+ words) Congress on Tuesday posthumously awarded American prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz with the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest U. S. honor bestowed on civilians, for his work taking on Nazi death squads during the Nuremberg Trials. Ferencz, who died in 2023 at the age of…...
When the US went to war with Guam " and no one told them
3+ week, 2+ day ago (589+ words) It was perhaps the politest "battle" in human history. Upon entering Guam's harbor on June 20, 1898, instead of experiencing the expected whizz of bullets and the booms of a cannonade, U. S. Navy Capt. Henry Glass and his crew aboard the re-commissioned cruiser…...
After more than half a century, these veterans returned to Vietnam
3+ week, 3+ day ago (1013+ words) It was a homecoming of sorts " decades overdue. A dozen Vietnam veterans returned to the Southeast Asian country " with all but one having not been back since their combat boots left the soil of Vietnam for the last time some…...
Hiroshima survivor who spent decades investigating American POW deaths dies at 88
4+ week, 1+ day ago (553+ words) Shigeaki Mori, an atomic bomb survivor who spent decades researching the forgotten American prisoners of war killed in the Hiroshima attack, has died at age 88. The historian died on March 14 at a Hiroshima hospital, according to Japanese media reports. Mori…...
Marine Raider's remains identified 80 years after being killed in action
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (441+ words) The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced on March 4 that Marine Raider Pfc. Norton Retzsch, 25, had been accounted for on April 1, 2025 " thanks, in part, to 20-year-old DNA submitted to the military in 2006. Kim Opitz, Retzsch's great-niece, a freelance writer who…...
Is there anything new to learn about Patton? The National WWII Museum thinks so.
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (902+ words) The world is not supposed to know what the hell they did with me. I'm not supposed to be commanding this army. I'm not even supposed to be in England. Let the first bastards to find out be the goddamned…...
The "Old Guard" marks centennial of watching over Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1120+ words) For over 100 years, Arlington National Cemetery has been the site of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, but it hasn't always been guarded " or revered. Following the soldier's 1921 internment, the burial site was unguarded and often treated as a tourist…...
Competing with Dick Bong to be WWII's top ace this pilot met a fateful end
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (905+ words) On 7 January 1945, while leading a voluntary fighter sweep over Negros Island, he risked an extremely low altitude in an attempt to save a fellow flier from attack, crashed and was reported missing in action." This was the last of several…...
Trailer released for World War II drama "Pressure," starring Brendan Fraser
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (543+ words) On June 6, 1944, over 160, 000 Allied troops were sent across the English Channel onto the beaches of Normandy, France, marking the assault on Western Europe. Yet the operation, dubbed Operation Overlord, almost ended in disaster before it even began. Now, the upcoming…...
We are all Jews: Soldier who defied his German captors to be awarded Medal of Honor
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (913+ words) After more than 80 years " and a decade after he was recognized by Yad Vashem as one of the "Righteous Among the Nations" " Roddie Edmonds will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor, a White House official confirmed to Military Times on…...