WORLD WAR II

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.

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Air Force veteran, Edward Benson Jr. of Roanoke was killed back in 1945. In 2022, his family was finally able to lay him to rest.

June’s family told 10 News of his passing away Wednesday morning.

Vladimir Putin had no victories in Ukraine to proclaim on Victory Day.

The Russian president’s failing Ukraine invasion make his shameless appropriation of the USSR’s World War II victory and his historical distortions ring even more hollow.

The Russian leader stops short of calling for a wider war mobilization during an annual military parade but vows to capture Ukraine's Donbas region.

In his Victory Day speech, President Vladimir Putin falsely called Ukrainians “Nazis” and insisted without evidence that Kyiv was planning to build nuclear weapons.

Russia's ambassador to Poland was splattered with red paint thrown at him by protesters opposed to the war in Ukraine, preventing him from paying respects on Monday at a Warsaw cemetery to Red Army soldiers who died during World War II. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova denounced the attack, saying on her messaging app channel that “we won’t be scared” while the “people of Europe should be scared to see their reflection in a mirror.”

Russia's "Victory Day" military parade marks the anniversary of the Soviet Union's defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

In a speech, Russian President Vladimir Putin gives no indication of a shift in strategies of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the display was canceled due to "bad weather," though weather reports from Moscow said it was sunny with little wind.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has sought to cast Moscow’s military action in Ukraine as a forced response to Western policies and a necessary move to ward off a potential aggression.

Tanks, armored personnel carriers and transports carrying huge intercontinental ballistic missiles will rattle across the paving stones. This year, as Russian troops fight gruelling battles in Ukraine and unleash torrents of missiles and bombs, few Russians are likely to be dulled by the parade’s rituals.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is marking Victory Day with a speech from a grand military parade in Moscow’s Red Square as his war in Ukraine struggles.

The Kremlin denied having plans to declare the "special military operation” in Ukraine a war, calling the reports “untrue” and “nonsense.”

The pride and patriotism usually associated with Russia's most important holiday is mixed with apprehension and unease over what this year's Victory Day may bring.

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.

"Victory Day" is a key day for Russia as it marks the anniversary of the then-Soviet Union's defeat of Nazi Germany.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett says he accepted an apology from Russian President Vladimir Putin for controversial remarks about the Holocaust made by Moscow’s top diplomat

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett says he accepted an apology from Russian President Vladimir Putin for controversial remarks about the Holocaust made by Moscow’s 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.

The bust is around 2,000 years old, experts believe.

Economic sanctions are working now against Russia as they squeezed Japan before World War II. But the historical lesson is that they don’t make adversaries less aggressive.

Israel has summoned the Russian ambassador over comments made by the Russian foreign minister about Nazism and antisemitism

Germany has filed a case against Italy at the United Nations’ top court in a long running dispute over World War II reparations

Marilyn Henry of Nashville is collecting images of men who died on the USS Indianapolis toward the end of World War II.

A single metal cross remains inside the Orthodox church of shattered brick and blackened stone

A single metal cross remains inside the Orthodox church of shattered brick and blackened stone.

It is the largest refugee crisis Europe has seen since World War II.

The group will take veterans from our area to Washington D.C. free of charge.

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Crews were working to keep the USS The Sullivans from sinking at its berth at the Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park, where it had been open for tours.

Crews were working to keep USS The Sullivans from sinking at its berth at the Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park, where it had been open for tours.

A decommissioned World War II-era destroyer docked near downtown Buffalo in New York was taking on water and listing perilously on Thursday. Crews were working to keep the USS The Sullivans from sinking at its berth at the Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park, where it had been open for tours. The USS The Sullivans, a National Historic Landmark, was named in honor of the five Sullivan brothers from Waterloo, Iowa.

An historic World War II ship on display at a Navy and Military park in Buffalo, New York, was partially sinking Thursday, officials said. "One of our museum

Fred McCormick, left, chats with John Owens following the service. Owens is a veteran of World War II, while McCormick served in both WWII and the Korean War. Both celebrated their 100th birthdays in March, making them the two oldest members of Post 1033. (Recorder photo by Gavin Dressler) COVINGTON — The Curtis A. Smith

May 9, known as Victory Day for Russians, could signal the end of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — or something more frightful that’s unlikely to end the violence.

Officials in Michigan have broken ground on one of the few state-specific World War II memorials in the country.

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Moderate Democrats, including House members from districts with defense industry jobs, say they’ll join with Republicans to support more military spending, just as they did last year.

She joined the National Park Service at the ripe young age of 84, at Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historic Park in Richmond, outside San Francisco.

The Solomon Islands said that despite a recent pact with China, it won't allow the major power to build a military base, and the two are only collaborating on security and naval refueling.

Seeking to counter fears over its new security alliance with China, the Solomon Islands says it won’t allow China to build a military base there.

A 16-meter-high bronze monument to Taras Shevchenko, a national hero in Ukraine, survived World War II. Ukrainians have shielded it with countless layers of sandbags in hopes it also will survive Russian attacks. Shevchenko's right arm is outstretched, clenched with a fist at the end, while he holds the folds of his garments in the other hand. The monument in Ukraine's second-largest city of Kharkiv is one of many signs of Ukrainian resolve that has endured through 32 days.

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Senator and combat war veteran pushes Senate for memorial for the "Rosie the Riveters" who worked as "letter carriers, code breakers, manufacturers and more."

Lee Yong-soo, a woman who was subjected to sexual slavery during World War II under the Imperial Japanese Army, is demanding that the United Nations (UN) seek justice by asking Japan to formally apologize and take full responsibility. After being inspired by Korean human rights activist Kim Hak-sun, Lee told her story to the world in 1992. Lee believes that the historical dispute between South Korea and Japan cannot be settled without the involvement of the UN and has been campaigning for the issue to be taken to the UN’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) since last year.

"I've always wondered more about my father," said Linda Shauvin, who was just 3 years old when her father left for the war and never returned.

Six teenage students have been killed in a two-vehicle collision in southern Oklahoma, the state's Highway Patrol said Tuesday.

The president's first stop will be a NATO meeting in Brussels before also participating in meetings with the European Union and then G7 leaders.

The president's first stop will be a NATO meeting in Brussels before also participating in meetings with the European Union and then G7 leaders.

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Lawmakers held a moment of silence in memory of Boris Romanchenko and other victims of the war.

Lawmakers held a moment of silence in memory of Boris Romanchenko and other victims of the war.

The president of Poland has compared Russia’s attacks on Ukraine to Nazi forces during 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?

Sixteen GOP lawmakers voted against a House bill that seeks to promote public education on the history of Japanese Americans in World War II, including their incarceration in so-called “internment camps.” The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Jay Obernolte of California — who is also a Republican — ultimately passed with 406 yeas on Wednesday, while 10 others did not vote. Introduced as H.R. 6434, the bill directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish a “Japanese American World War II History Network” within the National Park Service (NPS).

Vladimir Putin has again painted his enemies in Ukraine as “neo-Nazis,” even though the country has a Jewish president who lost relatives in the Holocaust and who heads a Western-backed, democratically elected government

Vladimir Putin has again painted his enemies in Ukraine as “neo-Nazis,” even though the country has a Jewish president who lost relatives in the Holocaust and who heads a Western-backed, democratically elected government.

Videos verified by The Washington Post show extensive damage to the theater.

Since the end of World War II, the entire economic architecture of the planet has changed.

Warsaw’s mayor is appealing for international help as the city becomes overwhelmed by refugees, with more than a tenth of all those fleeing the war in Ukraine arriving in the Polish capital

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Research on individual equities is as bullish as it has been in two decades by some measures.

The House has voted to award the only all-female, Black unit to serve in Europe during World War II with the Congressional Gold Medal.

Vladimir Putin told the world in the lead-up to its attacks on Ukraine that his operation aimed to “denazify” Ukraine.

A U.S. military pilot known as the “Candy Bomber” for his airdrops of sweets during the Berlin airlift after World War II ended has died.

Latvia’s parliament has passed a Holocaust restitution bill that includes funding to revitalize the Baltic nation’s Jewish community, which was almost completely wiped out during World War II.

A new exhibition opening this week at the Dutch national museum examines the violent birth of Indonesia after three centuries of colonial rule.

World War II veterans Ash Rothlein and Robert Mayne died this week.

The oldest World War II veteran in the United States has died at the age of 112.

A funeral service for former World War II veteran and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole is scheduled for Friday at approximately 11 a.m.

Pearl Harbor attack survivors gathered at the site of the bombing to remember more than 2,300 U.S. troops killed 80 years ago.

Pearl Harbor survivors and World War II veterans are gathering in Hawaii this week to remember those killed in the Dec. 7, 1941, attack.

A World War II veteran who was the last surviving officer of “Easy Company,” which inspired the HBO miniseries and book “Band of Brothers,” has died.

A World War II veteran from Alabama who survived COVID-19 will be honored on his 105th birthday with the French Legion of Honor in recognition of his service.

Volunteers can sign up to adopt a soldier, then receive their name, birth date, and hometown. You can write to your service member using custom stationery and have opportunities to send care packages overseas.

In honor of Veterans Day, a group of Democratic lawmakers is reviving an effort to pay the families of Black veterans who fought on behalf of the nation during World War II for benefits they were denied or prevented from taking full advantage of when they returned home from war.

Close friends of Bernard Marie tell us that he had been in failing health for some time.

Costs to clean up a massive nuclear weapons complex in Washington state are usually expressed in the hundreds of billions of dollars and involve decades of work.

Fighter jets have flown over the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki in an aerial display as troops marched in the city’s center to mark Greece’s national holiday commemorating the country’s entry into World War II.

A 100-year-old man has gone on trial in Germany, accused of being an accessory to murder for serving as a Nazi SS guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin during World War II.

Warsaw’s Jewish community has buried an unidentified Holocaust victim whose remains were discovered in a building that was within the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.

The U.S. Department of Defense says the remains of a World War II pilot whose body was lost in Europe's Adriatic Sea have been recovered and will be buried in his home state of Maine.

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice ordered United States and West Virginia flags at state-owned properties flown at half-staff on Saturday in honor of a World War II sailor whose remains were recently returned to West Virginia.

A flag-draped casket sat near the altar of Saint John’s Episcopal Church Monday, as loved ones gathered to bid farewell to Bill Sisk, who died last week at the age of 96.

Japan has marked the 76th anniversary of its surrender in World War II.

Israel is condemning Poland’s approval of a law that restricts the rights of former Polish property owners, including Holocaust survivors and their descendants, to reclaim property seized by the country’s former communist regime.

World War II veteran Bill Sisk died this week at the age of 96. The Lynchburg native used to participate in the weekly troop rallies.

An Army battalion that made history as the only all-female, Black unit to serve in Europe during World War II is set to be honored by Congress.

Belarus has retaliated to the European Union sanctions by halting cooperation on stemming illegal migration and denying entry to EU officials.

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has warned that his country will not try to stem a flow of migrants to the European Union in response to new EU sanctions.

The double-cheeked embrace that was a customary greeting in France before the coronavirus pandemic saw it largely abandoned as a potential kiss of death is back with a presidential seal of approval.

The remains of an Army Staff Sergent, who was killed during World War II, have been identified.

Several events have commemorated the 77th anniversary of D-Day that led to the liberation of France and Europe from the German occupation.

The images of World War II and D-Day are still etched into the minds of people around the world.

In World War II John Billings flew more than 50 combat missions, including missions for the U.S. Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner to the CIA.

Officials say an underground nuclear waste storage tank in Washington state that dates to World War II appears to be leaking contaminated liquid into the ground.

Britain has seen its budget deficit rise during the coronavirus pandemic to its highest level since the year after the end of World War II.