October 18, 2019 Bret Baier: Three presidents at the brink -- FDR, Eisenhower, Reagan and the future of the free world Here's the story of how FDR, Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan are linked, over a period of 56 years, in a twentieth-century battle for freedom and democracy in the world.Â
October 18, 2019 Group scours Pacific for sunken WWII battleships, lost war graves MIDWAY ATOLL, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (AP) — Deep-sea explorers scouring the world's oceans for sunken World War II ships are focusing on debris fields deep in the Pacific, in an area where one of the most decisive battles of the time took place.
October 18, 2019 Former Nazi concentration camp guard, 93, on trial in Germany as accessory to more than 5,000 murders A 93-year-old former SS private who as a teenager stood guard in a watchtower in a Nazi Germany concentration camp began trial Thursday in Hamburg state court where he’s accused of being an accessory to 5,230 murders in the finals months of World War II.
October 17, 2019 WWII-era racy paintings discovered at English nursing home Workers renovating a room for a new resident at a nursing home discovered racy paintings dating back to World War II beneath the wallpaper.
October 17, 2019 Another Iwo Jima flag-raiser was mis-ID’d, Marine Corps confirms: report The U.S. Marine Corps admits it has long misidentified one of the service members who took part in the Iwo Jima flag-raising – three years after admitting a similar error.
October 15, 2019 Hall of Fame coach Marv Levy calls on all NFL teams to hold World War II remembrance ceremonies Former NFL coaching legend Marv Levy is calling on all NFL teams to hold World War II remembrance ceremonies as the league celebrates its 100th season.Â
October 13, 2019 Coach Marv Levy: NFL honors World War II ‘Greatest Generation’ – Each team has its own connection to war It's time for the NFL to honor the service and sacrifice of the "Greatest Generation" before these treasured World War II heroes are gone. Their inspiring values must be instilled in future generations.
October 9, 2019 Nazi Blitz secrets revealed in novel Liverpool excavation project The Blitz during World War II may have been one of the most devastating campaigns in modern warfare. More than 70 years after it occurred, an archaeology student in the U.K. is attempting to tell the story of what happened to some of those affected by it.
October 8, 2019 Stephen Harding: Remembering World War II’s other heroes The men and women of America’s Greatest Generation made enormous sacrifices to free the people of Western Europe from the yoke of fascism.
October 7, 2019 Doomed WWII warship reveals its secrets: How 'the lucky 13' survived the sinking of the USS Eagle On April 23, 1945 patrol boat USS Eagle PE-56 was sunk by a torpedo fired from a German submarine, the U-853 just a few miles off the coast of Maine. Split in half by the blast, Eagle quickly sank to the seabed and most of her 62-strong crew lost their lives in the attack, save for a small group of survivors dubbed "the lucky 13."