Tag: World War II

Japan's Emperor Akihito, accompanied by Empress Michiko, leaves after delivering his remarks during a memorial service at Nippon Budokan martial arts hall in Tokyo, Saturday, Aug. 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

National Security

Japan’s emperor: ‘Deep remorse’ for World War II

Curt Mills · August 15, 2015 11:51 pm

A huge expanse of ruins were left after the explosion of the atomic bomb on Aug. 6, 1945, in Hiroshima. (AP Photo)Â

Hiroshima at 70: In fog of war, let principle be the compass

Timothy P. Carney · August 6, 2015 7:43 pm

Documents revealing first word of Nazi surrender, Hitler coup, head to auction

Paul Bedard · July 2, 2015 4:03 pm

In this Oct. 28, 2014 photo, the then 105 year-old Sir Nicholas Winton waits to be decorated with the highest Czech Republic's decoration, The Order of the White Lion at the Prague Castle in Prague, Czech Republic. (AP)

Man who saved 669 children from the Holocaust dies

Emilie Padgett · July 1, 2015 8:26 pm

D-Day Anniversary

Daniel Halper · June 7, 2015 12:43 am

Watch: Reagan delivers famous ‘Boys of Pointe du Hoc’ D-Day speech

Barbara Boland · June 6, 2015 8:50 am

Today, more than 30 states have hosted Ageless Aviation's program, with some offering as many as five or six flights a day on flight days. (AP Photo)Â

Beltway Confidential

Veterans go back to World War II days in ‘dream flight’

Emily Leayman · June 4, 2015 10:41 pm

SamÂ Tanenhuas lists Wisconsin Sen. Joe McCarthy and several obscure archconservatives as being the fathers of the modern Republican policy. (AP Photo)Â

The war about peace

Noemie Emery · June 2, 2015 9:00 am

During World War II, federal spending as a percent of GDP rose by 35 percentage points, while revenue rose only 14 percentage points. (Alfred T. Palmer/Office of War Information)

Beltway Confidential

Study: Big wars lead to big inflation

Jason Russell · June 1, 2015 5:06 pm

Men of U.S. 64th Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, celebrate the news of the Armistice. (U.S. Army - U.S. National Archive)

Why you shouldn’t confuse Memorial Day and Veterans Day

Emilie Padgett · May 25, 2015 9:00 am

World War II veteran Air Vice-Marshall William "Paddy" Harbison, hold his Royal Air Force (RAF) log book while attending an Arsenal of Democracy Flyover press briefing at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum on Tuesday, March 31. 2015. Harbison flew the P-51 Mustang, the Supermarine Spitfire, and later flew combat missions in Korea. (Graeme Jennings/WEX)

National Security

Inside old log book, memories of heroism

Tara Copp · May 25, 2015 9:00 am

Peter Corlett's 'Cobbers' sculpture is displayed at V.C. Corner Australian Memorial on March 26, 2014 in Fromelles, France. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

The Great War, the forgotten war

Crocker Iii · May 25, 2015 9:00 am