WWII

World War II veteran Bill Pool is the only still-living son of a Civil War soldier. His father, Charles Parker Pool, was born in 1844.

The most difficult mission of D-Day was scaling the 90-foot cliffs of Pointe du Hoc, France to take out the German machine guns targeted on the beach.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper said Wednesday on CNN’s “The Lead” that he was not sure if Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) knew who World War II-era British prime ministers Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill were.

The government of Prime Minister Kishida Fumio on Tuesday relaxed Japan’s export controls on defense equipment.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) official who attempted to ban the iconic photograph of a U.S. Navy sailor kissing a nurse on V-J Day from VA hospitals has a controversial history of hospital mismanagement, reports have revealed.

A World War II-era bomb whose discovery prompted one of the largest peacetime evacuations in British history has been detonated at sea.

EU Chief Ursula von der Leyen drew condemnation after posting a video which wrongly suggested the Auschwitz death camp was Polish.

Leftists have gone on the attack against the U.S. Air Force Academy for honoring the WWII Doolittle Raid on Japan

“We were about two hundred feet from the beach when a shell blew off the front of our landing craft, destroying the ramp,” recalled Ray Alm from B Company of the 2nd Ranger Battalion.

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

While many Americans were rightfully concerned about the Chinese spy balloon that President Joe Biden allowed to fly over the continental U.S. for several days, this was not the first time a foreign nation sent a balloon to the mainland. 

During the Battle of Pearl Harbor, Doris “Dorie” Miller became the first black man to win the Navy Cross for his heroism in battle.

Buzz Bissinger, author of the classic novel “Friday Night Lights,” joined “Breitbart News Saturday” host Matthew Boyle to discuss his most recent book, “The Mosquito Bowl,” a true story about a military football game played during World War II.

What almost was a missed opportunity became a wonderful moment at a gas station in Northfield Village, Ohio, between a black man and a white World War II veteran, who recalled his experience on the battlefield with his black battalion. “THIS is who we are,” said the man, who thanked the WWII veteran for his service.

The dog tags of two members of the “Band of Brothers” WWI unit from the epic 2001 Tom Hanks-HBO miniseries has been found in a dig in England.

At 100, Lester Wright became the toast of the town, setting the world record for the 100-meter at the Penn Relays in Philly.

Wolfgang Schwanitz, the former head of Communist East-Germany’s infamous secret police, the Stasi, has died aged 91.

A delegation of nearly 100 Japanese legislators visited Japan’s Yasukuni Shrine on Tuesday, which honors Japanese military casualties, including those from World War II and “convicted war criminals,” Kyodo News reported.

Most of the “baddest actors” charged at the Nuremberg Trials escaped justice, Dean Reuter, general counsel and vice president at the Federalist Society and co-author of The Hidden Nazi: The Untold Story of America’s Deal with the Devil, stated on Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily.

A 96-year-old WWII veteran went for one more flight in a vintage Boeing Stearman plane thanks to the organization Dream Flights.

The former president played the clip of the speech from the movie “Patton” before beginning his rally, recalling the fighting spirit of America in World War II.

Prosecutors in Russia confirmed this week that they would investigate a Russian state circus performance involving a monkey dressed as a Nazi and goats wearing swastikas.

The Department of Veteran’s Affairs (VA) has sparked outcries after prohibiting the traditional Memorial Day weekend flag placements.

First Lady Melania Trump was sharp and sleek as she attended a ceremony commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Victory in Europe at the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. on Friday. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un a commemorative war medal to mark the 75th anniversary of the victory of Britain, Russia, and other allied forces over Nazi Germany in World War II, the Russian embassy in Pyongyang announced on Tuesday.

General Hans Kammler, a Nazi SS commander who designed the Third Reich’s network of concentration camps and V-2 rocket program, likely escaped Europe with aid from the U.S. government in exchange for intelligence, explained by Dean Reuter.

Nazi officials preserved assets, weapons research, and personnel for a Fourth Reich that never came to be, explained Dean Reuter.

Eighty years after the first Nazi bombs fell on Poland, echoes of the blasts can be heard in the bickering between Warsaw and Berlin over the possibility of billions of euros in war reparations.

Ultimately, the American involvement at D-Day boiled down to the grit, initiative, and leadership of American’s greatest asset—the individual soldier.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said on Tuesday she would save the planet from climate change with a “carbon-neutral”-powered federal government.

A 96-year-old World War II veteran rose from his wheelchair at the the U.S. Women’s National Team game against Mexico on Sunday, and played a stirring rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner on his harmonica.

Military historian Patrick K. O’Donnell described America’s need “to be prepared” as a primary lesson of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Jenna Bush Hager, the daughter of former President George W. Bush and granddaughter of the late former President George H.W. Bush, shared memories on Instagram Saturday morning of her grandfather and his fearless thoughts about death.

The Dutch national railway company says it will set up a commission to investigate how it can pay individual reparations for its role in mass deportations of Jews by Nazi occupiers during World War II.

Victor Davis Hanson said Emmanuel Macron’s proposal for an EU army is “absurd” given France’s failure to meet its financial NATO commitments.

Thieves have stolen more than £1,500 from an 84-year-old military hero who was selling poppies to raise money for veterans at a shopping centre.