World War II

News

Navy official to look into recognizing black WWII sailor who towed raft of shipmates through shark-infested waters

Jeremy Beaman -

April 28, 2021 7:51 pm

Biden is no FDR

Noemie Emery -

April 27, 2021 6:18 pm

In this 1943 file photo, a group of Polish Jews are led away for deportation by German SS soldiers during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto by German troops after an uprising in the Jewish quarter. A Warsaw court is scheduled to deliver a verdict Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021 in a closely watched libel case in which Polish national dignity and the independence of Holocaust research are said to be at stake.

Op-Eds

Fooling with facts on Poland’s role in the Holocaust

Stanislaw Zaryn -

April 6, 2021 4:00 am

A World War II veteran and his guardian board a bus to depart Salt Lake City, Utah, on an honor flight trip to Washington, D.C., May 7, 2015. Nearly 50 veterans and their guardians made the trip to see the monument built in their honor.

Economy

Utah one of last states to rid taxes on military retiree benefits

Abraham Mahshie -

March 23, 2021 5:51 pm

Beltway Confidential

Father Joseph O’Callahan and the Irish in America

Kevin Carroll -

March 15, 2021 5:51 pm

This undated photo provided by the Pentagon's Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency shows Lawrence Dickson, a New York pilot killed during World War II. Dickson is first of the 27 Tuskegee Airmen still listed as missing in action whose remains the Pentagon says they have identified through DNA samples provided by his daughter in New Jersey. Dickson was a 24-year-old captain in the 100th Fighter Squadron when his P-51 fighter plane was seen crashing along the Italy-Austria border during a mission on Dec. 23, 1944. Searches for the crash site were unsuccessful until 2012.

Foreign Policy

National museum honoring Tuskegee Airmen has new home in Detroit

Zach Halaschak -

March 13, 2021 8:58 pm

White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Friday, March 12, 2021, in Washington.

News

White House won’t explain Biden’s COVID-wartime death tolls comparison as fact-checkers cry foul

Rob Crilly -

March 12, 2021 8:05 pm

Barbed wire is seen at the memorial site of the former Nazi concentration camp 'Neuengamme' in Hamburg, northern Germany, on Tuesday, May 4, 2010. Numerous former inmates visited the KZ Neuengamme as a contemporary witnesses in the context of the memorial events held on the occasion of the 65th anniversary day of the liberation of the concentration camps.

Crime

95-year-old former Nazi in Tennessee deported to Germany

Mike Brest -

February 20, 2021 8:10 pm

Beltway Confidential

Bob Dole, now facing cancer, is a hero for the ages

Quin Hillyer -

February 18, 2021 7:22 pm

Magazine - Life & Arts

The longest year

Trent Reedy -

February 12, 2021 4:00 am

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