Louis Marius Prevost, the father of Pope Leo XIV, served on a D-Day landing ship during World War II and was a junior lieutenant ... He was in charge of a landing craft that “the Allies used ...

I PULLED INTO THE STATION WHEN THE TRUCK WAS OUTSIDE AND Thursday marks the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, which marked the end of World War II on the continent. In 1945, Nazi Germany ...

When World War II came to Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast, it wasn’t in the form of grainy newsreel footage from the other side of the world. Instead, right in front of us, smoke and ...

The dissident Kundera was writing behind the Iron Curtain after World War II about the importance of ... aircraft gunner in a raid and the boy in a landing barge really did feel at moments that ...

Eighty years after World War II ended, he is sounding a warning against the return of fascism. The war was still raging when Leitmann and his comrades from the 286th Combat Engineer Battalion of ...

Eighty years on, few people are alive who remember World War II. Anne Frank would have turned 96 this June; Senator Bob Dole, a veteran of the Italian campaign in 1945, died four years ago.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has issued a proclamation designating Thursday as a day for the United States to celebrate victory in World War II as countries in Europe already do.

Jim Pillen and the state Department of Veteran Affairs. Nebraska deployed 144,000 during World War II. If you know a veteran you want to nominate, visit Veterans.Nebraska.gov.

Today, Russia marked the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. Yet another war, the war in Ukraine, served as a backdrop to the event. Joining us to ...

(Photo by Jess Mancini) BEVERLY — A World War II veteran who will be 100 in November remains an integral part of the Oliver Tucker Museum in Beverly. Francis Sampson was a medic during the war ...

Russian servicemen attend the Victory Day military parade celebrating the 80th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, in Moscow, Russia, May 9, 2025 (RIA Novosti photo by ...