May 25, 2019 Walter R. Borneman: Memorial Day -- Remembering when blue stars turned to gold During World War II, one could walk down any street in America – from row houses on the west side of Cleveland to farmhouses scattered across the plains of Kansas – and see Blue Star banners hanging in front windows.
May 24, 2019 Veteran of D-Day, Okinawa recalls fight with PTSD as he prepares to travel back to Normandy A World War II Navy corpsman who served in D-Day as a teenager recalled his fight with PTSD as he prepares to revisit Normandy.
May 20, 2019 French postal worker who never knew his U.S. serviceman father finally tracks down American siblings thanks to DNA test A French man spent his whole life searching for his father who he knew only as an American solider without a name; 75 years later, a DNA test reunites him with his brother living in South Carolina, who never knew he existed.
May 18, 2019 Larry Taunton: Did the Greatest Generation 'fail' us? Did the Greatest Generation fail us? Some historians seem to think so.
May 15, 2019 German cookie heiress defends family's Nazi-era forced labor policy Backlash is growing after an heiress to a German biscuit empire shrugged off the hardship suffered by dozens of people forced to work in her family's business under Nazi rule.
May 15, 2019 WWII D-Day memorabilia up for auction An iconic piece of World War II history, the bell from a craft that landed on the beaches of Omaha on D-Day, is set to go up for auction later this week.
May 9, 2019 World War II vet, 91, gets high school diploma 8 decades after dropping out to support his family Pete Sabedra, a 91-year-old World War II veteran from Pennsylvania, finally got his high school diploma — eight decades after leaving school to support his family.
May 8, 2019 Auschwitz Museum criticizes Aussie company for selling products with images of notorious concentration camp The Auschwitz Museum denounced an online marketplace for independent artists Wednesday over the sale of memorabilia featuring images of the infamous Nazi death camp.
May 6, 2019 Remains of WWII airman identified, sent home to Massachusetts for burial The remains of a World War II airman shot down 75 years ago by the Japanese have been identified and sent home to be buried in Massachusetts.
April 25, 2019 Hitler's 'suicide note' from his final days surfaces Widely dubbed as his "suicide note," the final message that Adolf Hitler ever wrote has surfaced and is set to go up for auction later this month.
