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Purple Heart recipient Harry Perez Cerezo decided to do something slightly different to mark his big day by spending it at Hooters.

The United States Steel Corporation, which played a critical role in helping the Allies defeat Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany in World War II, is now being sold to Japan’s largest steelmaker. 

A World War II veteran from New York celebrated his hundredth birthday with family, friends, and fans from around the world.

A family in The Woodlands, Texas, has been reunited with a special piece of jewelry belonging to their own American hero.

Malaysia said on Tuesday authorities were questioning the crew of a Chinese vessel detained on suspicion of looting World War II shipwrecks.

Malaysia’s maritime agency said Monday it found a cannon shell believed to be from World War II on a Chinese-registered vessel.

A French mayor has reportedly given a speech written by an AI chatbot commemorating the dead of the second world war.

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio met in Seoul over the weekend for their second summit in two months.

In the latest embarrassment for Emmanuel Macron, the French president drove down a nearly empty Champs-Elysées on Victory Day for fear of protests.

Explorers announced they found a WWII ship that was sunk in 1942, resulting in Australia’s largest maritime wartime loss of 1,080 lives.

Benjamin Ferencz, a pioneering prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials who secured convictions for Nazi death squad commanders, has died at 103 years old.

A South Carolina World War II veteran recently recounted his eventful life and shared some timeless advice on his hundredth birthday.

A 102-year-old World War II veteran who served as one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen was honored in Henderson, Nevada, on Wednesday.

Ned Ammons of Genoa, Ohio, who served in the U.S. Army during World War II, turned 100 on Thursday, WTOL reported.

CLAIM: On Wednesday Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said, “We have more people in America that have died in my short lifetime due to gun violence than in every single one of our wars.” VERDICT: False.

The oldest living survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor celebrated his upcoming 105th birthday on Wednesday surrounded by loved ones and fellow veterans.

The American housing market is suffering its second-largest price correction since the end of World War II, and one expert attributes it partly to people’s concerns about economic issues.

A former Nazi concentration camp secretary was found guilty of complicity by a German court Tuesday in the murders of over 10,000 prisoners during the Holocaust.

The White House revealed the meeting over social media, as they posted images of the meeting on Twitter.

Officials protested Ukraine for appointing an official who praised an ultranationalist whose supporters murdered tens of thousands of Poles.

The main war memorial in Edinburgh, Scotland, was set on fire within 24 hours of its having been the centrepiece of the nation’s Remembrance Sunday commemorations for the fallen.

The UK fell silent on Remembrance Sunday as King Charles III led the nation in honouring servicemen and women who lost their lives.

A Marine in the Hyde Park area of Cincinnati, Ohio, is observing Veterans Day and also celebrating a major milestone.

Poland has demolished four so-called ‘Monuments of Gratitude’ to the armies of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) as part of an ongoing decommunisation programme.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Hannah Pick-Goslar, one of Jewish diarist Anne Frank’s best friends, has died in Israel at age 93, the foundation that runs the Anne Frank House museum said.

The Canadian government has invested around $4 million to partner with a local government to buy back beachfront land and prevent a building development at Juno, the D-Day landing beach Canadian soldiers stormed in 1944.

World War II veteran Sgt. 1st Class Harold Nelson was given the Army’s third highest honor, the Silver Star, during a ceremony at Fort Carson in Colorado on Tuesday.

A World War II veteran has been busy crafting presents for Vietnam veterans at his woodworking shop in Fallbrook, California.

A climate change activist poured human faeces and urine over a memorial to Second World War veteran Captain Sir Tom Moore to protest private jets.

The head of Poland’s governing Law and Justice (PiS) party has claimed that Germany owes his country cash reparations for Germany’s actions in the Second World War, claiming that Poland suffered as much as 1.3 trillion euros of damage.

A 100-year-old veteran was recently honored by the Cherokee Nation for her service in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps in World War II.

The Latvian government has gone ahead with the demolition of a Soviet-era war memorial in the capital city of Riga this week, the latest Soviet monument to be destroyed since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The head of Poland’s central bank has claimed that Germany is eyeing up ways of seizing territory lost to Poland after the end of the Second World War.

Jim Reynolds of Fishers, Indiana, will soon celebrate his 100th birthday and was recently given the opportunity of a lifetime.

A World War II veteran in Roseville, California, is getting a lot of attention for celebrating his 105th birthday.

A man named Bud Clauson celebrated a huge milestone on Sunday after living through some of the most significant moments in history.