2+ day, 19+ hour ago  (840+ words) WARSAW " Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky has returned Poland's highest state honor, after the Polish president stripped him of the award as a politically charged dispute over World War II history resurfaced. Ukrainians believed the order "was meant for the Ukrainian…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (437+ words) Blasts from the past, a bunny is rescued, and stolen ATVs recovered The Boston Globe Blasts from the past, a bunny is rescued, and stolen ATVs recovered Every day, police officers respond to reports of all sorts of events and…...

7+ mon, 2+ day ago  (1061+ words) The hangman, Army Sergeant John C. Woods, waxed and tested his ropes. He checked the wooden gallows for stability. He yanked the lever on the trap door to see if it worked properly. It creaked. So he added a little oil....

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (200+ words) Arthur Rose, a World War II veteran living in Boston, turned 107-years-old in February, and this week got a special escort from Boston police to the State House. Gov. Maura Healey and other officials presented Rose with the flag that…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (497+ words) In a striking display of maritime heritage and continuity, the country's oldest commissioned warship joined its newest in a stunning, sunlit ceremony Saturday as the Navy formally accepted the USS Massachusetts into service. Before a cheering crowd of thousands gathered…...

3+ mon, 15+ hour ago  (1272+ words) CENTERVILLE - December 7, 1941, started out like any other Sunday for Freeman Johnson, then a 21-year-old from Waltham serving as a Navy machinist aboard the USS St. Louis at Pearl Harbor. He got up at 6 a. m. and had breakfast. There was a war…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago  (676+ words) HONOLULU " Seven Japanese American soldiers were promoted to officer ranks in a solemn ceremony Monday, eight decades after they died fighting for the United States during World War II despite having been branded "enemy aliens." The seven were students at…...

5+ mon ago  (508+ words) It was August 20, 2023, and I sat in my windowless basement staring at a computer screen, surrounded by mountains of paper and books. I was three years into my research for a book on World War II shipbuilders. On this day,…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (587+ words) QUINCY " Brigadier General Enoch "Woody" Woodhouse II, a Roxbury native and one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, celebrated his 99th birthday Wednesday in Quincy, surrounded by longtime friends and fellow patriots " and a giant gingerbread cookie of himself. Woodhouse was…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1091+ words) It was only because his Army physical was rescheduled at the last minute that Jim and Merry Boone found themselves at one of the most memorable events of the 20th century. Young newlyweds just out of college in the tumultuous summer…...