Tag: World War II

Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, gestures while speaking with Chinese President Xi Jinping, second left, watching the Victory Parade marking the 70th anniversary of the surrender of Nazi Germany in World War II, in Red Square, Moscow, Russia, Saturday, May 9, 2015. Xi's wife Peng Liyuan is at left, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev is on the right, speaking to a veteran. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

National Security

Putin stages biggest military parade since WWII, criticizes West

Zack Colman · May 9, 2015 2:47 pm

National Security

Thousands gather for WWII tribute and flyover

Tara Copp · May 8, 2015 8:21 pm

Churchill on V-E Day

Michael Makovsky · May 7, 2015 10:21 am

Warbirds help vets get ‘rid of a few ghosts’

Tara Copp · May 4, 2015 9:00 am

Many of the World War II bombers and fighters will be available for touring or rides over the weekend.

Seeing the planes up close

Tara Copp · May 4, 2015 9:00 am

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will speak to a joint session of Congress on April 29, coinciding with the seventieth anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. (AP Photo)

Japan’s man of the hour

Arthur Herman · April 28, 2015 9:00 am

Mary Doyle Keefe poses at her home in Nashua, N.H., with the May 29, 1943, cover of the Saturday Evening Post for which she had modeled as "Rosie the Riveter" in a Norman Rockwell painting. Keefe died Tuesday, April 21, 2015, in Simsbury, Conn., after a brief illness. She was 92. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)

Model for iconic ‘Rosie the Riveter’ painting dies

Kelly Cohen · April 23, 2015 12:35 pm

Was 2007 a flexion point, when everything started going downhill?

Michael Barone · April 20, 2015 9:00 am

Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo., will pilot the TBM Avenger, a lethal World War II Navy dive-bomber, during a historic flyover on the National Mall May 8th. (Photographer: Wesley Shaw)

National Security

Pilots prepare for historic WWII flyover of Mall

Tara Copp · April 18, 2015 9:00 am

Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill, wearing a white suit, and Mackenzie King, Canada's Prime Minister, wave their hats in acknowledgment to a cheering crowd which gathered around their car as they toured Quebec, Canada on Sept. 2, 1943. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Benjamin Netanyahu echoes Winston Churchill

Michael Barone · March 4, 2015 3:17 pm

U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, on Feb. 23, 1945. Strategically located only 660 miles from Tokyo, the Pacific island became the site of one of the bloodiest, most famous battles of World War II against Japan. (AP Photo/Joe Rosenthal)

Remembering Iwo Jima

Austin Bay · February 25, 2015 7:56 pm

Washington Secrets

Art world shakeup: Painting by Hitler sells for three times a Picasso

Paul Bedard · February 13, 2015 6:14 pm