11+ hour, 46+ min ago   (383+ words) Ida Marie Levesque, a World War II veteran and longtime Carolina Beach resident, passed away on July 25 in Wilmington at the age of 102. Known as Miss Ida, Levesque was born on March 9, 1924, and enlisted immediately after getting her high school…...

4+ hour, 55+ min ago   (179+ words) Trying to explain the 1940s with just a few words is almost impossible. It was a decade of sacrifice and celebration. For many people, life was shaped by World War II, but there were also countless ordinary moments happening in between....

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (423+ words) Wings folded back, propellers slowly spinning to a stop, the U.S. Navy C-2A Greyhound's engines powered down on the apron Monday, July 27, outside the venerable aircraft's new retirement home: the Vietnam-era hangar at the Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum. This ship-to-shore cargo…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (295+ words) Arizona resident Dave Keaggy turned 100 on July 10 The World War II veteran celebrated his 100th birthday with an hour-long workout at Mountainside Fitness in Mesa “I’m as good as it gets right now,” Keaggy quipped A new centenarian and gymgoer of…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (186+ words) PARIS, July 26 (Reuters) - The Normandy D-Day beaches where Allied forces landed on June 6, 1944, to fight Adolf Hitler's Nazi troops and go on to liberate France have become a UNESCO protected world heritage site, the United Nations body said on Sunday....

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1406+ words) Perhaps above all else, Donald Trump is a child of the cold war. Three months before the US president was born, Winston Churchill delivered a historic speech in Fulton, Missouri, that ushered in a generations-long existential struggle between western capitalism…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (389+ words) The work of a World War Two Allied military leader has been officially recognised in Guernsey and Jersey for his involvement in the liberation of the Channel Islands, campaigners say. Jersey and Guernsey were liberated on 9 May 1945, and Sark the…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (149+ words) BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — A cleaning company found a World War II-era grenade inside a home around noon on Friday, July 24, according to the Baton Rouge Fire Department. BRFD said they were called to the 9000 block of Samoa Avenue…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (383+ words) A temporary monument honoring U.S. service members is coming to the National Wall. The monument is set to be installed this month in front of the Lincoln Memorial. It will feature two screens displaying the names of more than 41 million people…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (593+ words) By Francois Murphy and Christine Uyanik BRAUNAU AM INN, Austria, July 22 (Reuters) - The building where Adolf Hitler was born, near the Austrian border with Germany, officially began a new life as a police station on Wednesday, a conversion Austria's government…...