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A block in downtown San Francisco has been renamed for acclaimed photojournalist Joe Rosenthal, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic photo of U.S. Marines raising the flag on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima during WWII.
When composer Mason Bates approached Michael Chabon about turning his novel āThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clayā into an opera, he said the writer told him frankly that āopera was not his thing.ā.
A U.S. bomb from World War II has exploded at a Japanese airport, causing a large crater in a taxiway and the cancellation of more than 80 flights.
Hundreds of paratroopers have dropped out of near-cloudless skies over a heath in the central Netherlands to commemorate the 80th anniversary Operation Market Garden.
From Belgian flower fields to a deadly military plane crash, KSAT spoke with long-time residents of South San about what it was like growing up in the neighborhood.
Relatives of 12 Polish inmates of Nazi Germanyās concentration camps have received precious belongings seized from their kin during captivity.
Poland has held a state burial of the remains of more than 700 victims of Nazi Germanyās World War II mass executions that were recently uncovered in the so-called Valley of Death in the countryās north.
Czech explosive experts have detonated a World War II bomb at a major chemical plant in northwestern Czech Republic where it was found last week.
France is commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Allied invasion of the French Riviera in World War II to push back the Nazis.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has vowed to step up his countryās effort to defend a rules-based international order in a solemn ceremony marking the 79th anniversary of Japan's defeat in World War II.
Nagasaki has marked the 79th anniversary of its atomic bombing at the end of World War II at a ceremony eclipsed by the absence of the American ambassador and other Western envoys in response to the Japanese cityās refusal to invite Israel.
The U.S. military is celebrating an all-Japanese U.S. Army unit that was key in liberating Italyās central Tuscan region from Nazi-Fascist forces in July 1944, even while their family members were interned at home as enemies of the state following Japanās attack on Pearl Harbor.
The remains of a World War II service member who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in the Philippines in 1942 have been brought home to California.
Spain and England will play the European Championship final on Sunday in an imposing stadium with a dark history.
A member of the greatest generation and a war hero visited France for the first time since World War II.
A medal richly deserved but long denied to an African American combat medic wounded on Omaha Beach in the D-Day landings has been tenderly laid on the hallowed sands where he saved lives and shed blood.
An American veteran and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shared an emotional moment at a ceremony to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion to liberate France in World War II.
A Navy veteran of World War II is being mourned after his death en route to France to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
Imagine the pressure of having to accurately forecast the weather with countless lives and the fate of the free world at stake. That's exactly what a team of British and American meteorologists were tasked to do 80 years ago for the battle of D-Day.
President Joe Biden has marked the 80th anniversary of D-Day by pledging during a ceremony at the American cemetery in Normandy that āwe will not walk awayā from Ukraine.
World War II veterans are joining heads of state and others for poignant ceremonies on the beaches of Normandy to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
Across Normandy, France, where the largest-ever land, sea and air armada punctured Adolf Hitlerās defenses in western Europe on D-Day, Allied veterans of World War II are the VVIPs of 80th anniversary celebrations this week.
World War II veterans from across the United States as well as Britain and Canada are in Normandy this week to mark 80 years since the D-Day landings that helped lead to Hitlerās defeat.
French schoolchildren have greeted dozens of U.S. World War II veterans with a big poster saying āāthank you'' as they arrived on Monday in Normandy.
The June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France was unprecedented in scale and audacity, using the largest-ever armada of ships, troops, planes and vehicles to punch a hole in Adolf Hitlerās defenses in western Europe and change the course of World War II.
A group of 60 World War II veterans is leaving Atlanta on a trip to France to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
More than 60 veterans of World War II are being flown from Dallas to France to take part in ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has asked state forces and combatants to respect its neutrality and work of delivering urgent humanitarian help to the most destitute in war zones, saying 24 of its aid workers have been killed this year mostly in the Gaza Strip.
Russia wrapped itself in patriotic pageantry for Victory Day, as President Vladimir Putin celebrated the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II by hailing his forces in Ukraine and blasting the West for fueling conflicts around the world.
British army veteran Bill Gladden, who survived a glider landing on D-Day and a bullet that tore through his ankle a few days later, wanted to return to France for the 80th anniversary of the invasion so he could honor the men who didnāt come home.
Papua New Guineaās Prime Minister James Marape has accused Joe Biden of disparaging the South Pacific island nation by implying that an uncle of the U.S. president had been eaten by ācannibalsā there during World War II.
An interactive exhibit opening Wednesday at the National WWII Museum uses artificial intelligence to let visitors hold virtual conversations with images of veterans, including a Medal of Honor winner who died in 2022.
When France hosts grandiose ceremonies commemorating D-Day, the heroic role of Missak Manouchian and other foreigners among French Resistance fighters in World War II is often overlooked.
Japanese Americans who were incarcerated on U.S. soil during World War II are being commemorated at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.
France is getting ready to show its gratitude towards World War II veterans who will return to Normandy beaches this year for 80th anniversary commemorations of D-Day to mark the defeat of the Nazis.
Gregory Golodoff, the last survivor among 41 residents imprisoned in Japan after Japanese troops captured the remote Alaska island of Attu during World War II, has died.
Pearl Harbor survivor Ira Schab returned to the Hawaii naval base 82 years after Japanās bombing propelled the U.S. into World War II.
Footage from deep in the Pacific Ocean has given the first detailed look at three World War II aircraft carriers that sank in the pivotal Battle of Midway.
Rachel Maddowās next book will be an exploration into right-wing extremism in the U.S., including a plot to overthrow the government at the start of World War II.
A solemn peace march has started through forests in eastern Bosnia in memory of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europeās only acknowledged genocide since World War II.
Imagine the pressure of having to accurately forecast the weather with countless lives and the fate of the free world at stake. That's exactly what a team of British and American meteorologists were tasked to do 79 years ago for the battle of D-Day.
World War II veterans, officials and visitors are commemorating D-Day on the beaches of Normandy to honor those who fought for freedom in the largest naval, air and land operation in history.
Dozens of World War II veterans have traveled to Normandy to mark the 79th anniversary of D-Day, the decisive but deadly assault that led to the liberation of France and Western Europe from Nazi control.
Authorities in Poland say that a priceless 16th century Italian painting that was looted by Nazi Germany during World War II has been found in Japan and returned.
Malaysiaās maritime agency says it has detained a Chinese-registered vessel on suspicion of looting two British warship wrecks in the South China Sea.
The chairman of Ukraineās parliament has offered words of reconciliation over World War II-era mass murders that have strained relations with its neighbor and strategic ally Poland for 80 years.
China says Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin will visit Beijing next week for talks, marking the latest exchange in a relationship in which Russia is becoming increasingly reliant on China for economic and diplomatic support.
The Justice Department says it has disrupted a long-running Russian cyberespionage campaign that stole sensitive information from computer networks in dozens of countries.
An officially sanctioned hunt for a stash of precious jewelry looted by the Nazis during World War II and purportedly buried in a sleepy Dutch village has ā like many previous searches ā failed to unearth any treasure.
A thriving African American community took root on San Antonioās West Side, especially after World War II, when many were drawn to the area by the prospect of civil service jobs.
An American Airman who was killed in action during World War II nearly 80 years ago has been identified as a 31-year-old Texas man, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
On Jan. 3, the Dutch National Archive made public an old map believed to mark a spot where millions of dollars worth of treasure were hidden by German soldiers during World War II.
Officials in central Poland say the recent discovery of objects that were most likely hidden by their Jewish owners during World War II has provided a rare and precious find.
Thursday marks the anniversary of one of the most significant days in U.S. and world history, a day that still lives in infamy, 82 years later.
Transportation investigators are trying to determine why two historic military planes were seemingly in the same place at the same time just before they collided at a Dallas air show, killing six people.
A national movement that began at St. Maryās University five years ago continues to push for federal legislation, formally acknowledging the governmentās internment of German-Americans at a camp in Crystal City, southwest of San Antonio, during World War II.
The remains of a sailor from Massachusetts who died when the USS Oklahoma capsized during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 are being buried at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday.
Polandās top politician says that the government will seek equivalent of $1.3 trillion in reparations from Germany for the Nazisā World War II invasion and occupation of his country.
The city of Chongqing is known for both soaring temperatures and spicy cuisine, notably its hotpot: a peppery bubbling tabletop broth into which diners dunk bite-size pieces of food to cook and eat.
The U.S. deputy secretary of state says the prime minister of the Solomon Islands āmissed an important opportunityā by failing to attend a memorial service to mark the anniversary of a key World War II battle, amid concerns the South Pacific island nation is building closer ties with China.
A German court says that a 101-year-old man who was convicted last week as an accessory to murder for serving as a guard at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II has appealed.
Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says the United States and allied countries will keep providing āsignificantā support to Ukraine, out of respect for the legacy of D-Day soldiers.
Congress has bestowed its highest honor on merchant mariners who fought in World War II, almost eight decades after the conflict in which more than 8,000 of them were killed.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has sought to cast Moscowās military action in Ukraine as a forced response to Western policies and a necessary move to ward off a potential aggression.
The Russian holiday of Victory Day brings out patriotic displays of flags, military parades and marches by veterans' groups celebrating the country's triumph over Nazi Germany in 1945.
A marble bust that a Texas woman bought for about $35 from a Goodwill store is temporarily on display at a San Antonio museum after experts determined it was a centuries-old sculpture missing from Germany since World War II.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett says he accepted an apology from Russian President Vladimir Putin for controversial remarks about the Holocaust made by Moscowās top diplomat.
The invasion of Ukraine means fewer Russian tanks and other military hardware will rumble through Red Square on Monday, when the country marks its victory in World War II.
As veterans of World War II get older and older, with most of them now in their late 80s and 90s, how will we preserve that legacy and keep their sacrifice alive?
Vladimir Putin has again painted his enemies in Ukraine as āneo-Nazis,ā even though the country has a Jewish president who lost relatives in the Holocaust and who heads a Western-backed, democratically elected government.
Even the rehearsal at St. Mary's University was emotionally powerful for the National Day of Remembrance event for German-American families held in internment camps during World War II.
Latviaās parliament has passed a Holocaust restitution bill that includes funding to revitalize the Baltic nationās Jewish community, which was almost completely wiped out during World War II.
