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Marines who served in Iraq and Afghanistan outraged at the assault of a 92-year-old World War II (WWII) veteran from Texas defending his country’s flag are coming together to ensure he gets the respect he deserves.

The extreme trauma experienced by Holocaust survivors has severe implications on their health even tens of years later, with an Israeli study finding that they were far more likely to get certain forms of cancer.

It is an honor to announce that the Nimitz Museum of the Pacific War now contains an “AWR Hawkins Collection” of World War II POW histories based on interviews conducted with POWs who were held in Pacific and European theaters.

Jerusalem auction house Kedem Auction is slated to reveal some very rare images on Tuesday to enthusiastic bidders. The pictures in question, which were never exposed to the public before, depict Mutfi Hag Amin al-Husseini visiting an unidentified German camp and are dated back to sometime between 1942 and 1943.

Here’s more evidence that Trump did the right thing by pulling out of the UN’s Paris climate agreement. Had the U.S. stayed in it would have been on the hook for a fair chunk of this eye-watering pay demand from India.

This June 6 marks the 73rd anniversary of D-Day. Nothing captures the drama and action of that day better than the words of the men who actually took part in the assault. Particularly poignant are the voices of the elite Army Rangers who led the way off bloody Omaha Beach.

A grandmother from California has brought letter-writing to a new art form by sending hand-written letters to troops stationed overseas.

The names of German military barracks honoring a handful of World War Two officers should changed to show that the country’s post-war armed forces have made a clean break from their Nazi past, Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen said on Sunday.

WARSAW, Poland — Warsaw’s mayor unveiled a monument Saturday to a World War II hero who volunteered to go to the Nazi’s Auschwitz death camp and informed firsthand on atrocities there but was later executed by Poland’s communist regime.

Israel has promised Russia it will do everything possible to avoid harming Russian troops deployed in Syria, Moscow’s deputy ambassador to the Jewish state told the Hebrew news site Walla in an interview published on Tuesday in honor of Victory Day — the anniversary of the end of World War II.

On Thursday night, President Trump commemorated the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea. Speaking from the deck of the World War II aircraft carrier Intrepid, permanently berthed in the waters of New York Harbor, Trump paid tribute to the sailors and airmen who fought in that long-ago combat; indeed, seven of the old salts, now in their nineties, were in the audience, and Trump respectfully named each one.

U.S. President Donald Trump has sent a message of thanks to Australia as World War II navy veterans from Down Under head to America and commemorations begin to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday threatened to destroy those who call for the destruction of Israel, in a speech to mark the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Israel has come to a standstill as people stopped in their tracks for a two-minute siren that wailed across the country in remembrance of the Holocaust’s 6 million Jewish victims.

Brexit will allow Germany to fulfil Adolf Hitler’s dream of controlling Europe and effectively win the struggle that animated the Second World War, Lord Heseltine has claimed.

A Warsaw couple hid nearly 300 Jews and resistance fighters on zoo grounds during most of the war, under the noses of the German Nazis.

Seven decades ago, the young Jewish diarist Anne Frank is unlikely to have imagined that her story would be kept alive for new generations via a computer-generated bot.

In his speech in Ypsilanti, Michigan, President Trump addressed what is arguably the most important economic-policy idea in U.S. history. In the years to come, the pro-growth, pro-jobs, pro-profits alliance that Trump espoused in Ypsilanti will become permanently embedded in Republican thinking—and, quite possibly, Democratic thinking as well.

A trailer was released this week for a World War II documentary, “D-Day: Over Normandy,” with New England Patriots Head Coach Bill Belichick as the narrator. In the trailer, Belichick explains his own connections to WWII. His father coached at Navy

Poland will seek the arrest and extradition of a Minnesota man after confirming he was a Nazi unit commander suspected of ordering the killing of 44 Poles during World War II, a prosecutor said Monday.

A recently discovered inventory of recorded tapes contains previously unheard songs sung by Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

Pop superstar Katy Perry has produced a public service announcement that asks, following the election of Donald Trump, “Is history repeating itself?”

Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner, who was responsible for the deaths of an estimated 130,000 Jews, died in 2001 at the age of 89, locked up in a squalid Damascus basement, a French magazine reported Wednesday.

2016 was a great year for most of us – but just because we’ve gained the beachhead doesn’t mean we’re going to win the war. With Brexit and Donald Trump, we’ve done the equivalent of capturing everywhere from Pointe Du

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe offered condolences for the dead and a lasting commitment to peace, but not an apology, during his historic visit to Pearl Harbor.

Retired Army Lt. Col. Allen B. West, a former Republican Florida congressman and combat commander in Iraq, who recently met with Donald Trump’s presidential transition team, joined fireballer Curt Schilling on Whatever It Takes Wednesday to talk about his visit to Trump Tower and what Pearl Harbor means now.

Historian Craig Shirley, author of December 1941: 31 Days that Changed America and Saved the World, joined SiriusXM host Matt Boyle on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor.

Americans across the country are commemorating the December 7, 1941 attack on the military base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii today – an attack that sunk 12 battleships, obliterated hundreds of aircrafts, killed thousands, and forced the United States into World War II.

Former Breitbart News executive chairman and Breitbart News Daily founding host Stephen K. Bannon, who departed to work for the Trump campaign and now the Trump White House, was a special guest of the show on Wednesday to talk about the 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced that he will visit Pearl Harbor later this month with U.S. President Obama, becoming Japan’s first leader to travel to the site of the Japanese attack that pulled the United States into World War II 75 years ago.

The Tallahassee Police Department (TPD) partnered with officials from the Tyndall Air Force Base to detonate a World War II-era bomb near the campus of Florida State University late Wednesday.

Gibson’s first directorial effort in a decade, Hacksaw Ridge, is rated R for “intense prolonged realistically graphic sequences of war violence including grisly bloody images,” warns the MPAA. And the film certainly earns every bit of that rating, which seems odd for a film about a pacifist.

Everyone knows that Ian Fleming got the name of his hero from a book he had on the shelves of his home in Jamaica: Birds of the West Indies by James Bond.

A private Berlin museum has unveiled a replica of part of the bunker where Adolf Hitler spent the final phase of World War II, a project that hasn’t been universally welcomed.

During Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence said: “We’re in the slowest economic recovery since the Great Depression.”

A sombre Ukraine on Thursday marks 75 years since the World War II slaughter of some 34,000 Jews on the outskirts of Kiev, one of the largest massacres of the Holocaust.