Wwii

USS Herring’s final resting place confirmed 82 years after being lost in WWII

Herring and her 83 crew were presumed lost after failing to report to Midway on July 13, 1944. She was stricken from the Navy Register four months later.

The submarine USS Herring (SS-233) passes Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco on October 12, 1943.
One of the 3,000 artifacts discovered in Drenthe, the Netherlands, June 19, 2026.

Archaeologists find over 3,000 artifacts from Stone Age to WWII in Netherlands valley

A demonstration in support of Palestine and Lebanon marches through Stockholm to Gustav Adolfs Torg, Sweden October 5.

Pro-Palestine camp to take place at site of Jewish WWII deportations

A mass rally of Berliners took place in the Sportpalast, where Nazi Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda and Gauleiter of Berlin, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, with ruthless frankness, described the danger facing Europe, 1943.

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Polish detectorists find 2,000-year-old Roman spatha sword while searching for WWII relics

Experts believe the sword was deposited as a funerary offering during a Przeworsk culture burial.

 Roman spatha sword dating back 2000 years found in Poland's Jura region.

Lost WWII Brazilian warship Vital de Oliveira identified after 80 years

On July 19, 1944, the German submarine U-861 torpedoed the Vital de Oliveira, sinking it and killing about 100 of the 270 crew members.

 Lost WWII Brazilian warship Vital de Oliveira identified after 80 years.

Secret WWII tunnels under London to become new tourist attraction

The £120 million transformation will create a museum, exhibition hall, and entertainment zone in the Kingsway Exchange Tunnels.

 Secret WWII tunnels under London to become new tourist attraction.

Remains of US soldier missing since World War II identified after 80 years

Bryant, at the time 23 -years-old, was assigned to Company B, 4th Ranger Battalion, a unit known as Darby's Rangers.

Operation Avalanche 1943

Korean-Japanese dive probes fate of 183 drowned at Josei coal mine in WWII

Japanese government says it's 'practically difficult' to conduct an investigation due to unclear burial location.

 Ube City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.

Japan airport shut after likely WW2-era bomb explodes near runway, 87 flights cancelled

The cause of the explosion was an American bomb that had been buried beneath the land surface.

 Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows part of a damaged taxiway at Miyazaki Airport in southwestern Japan on Oct. 2, 2024. The airport's runway was closed earlier in the day after an explosion was reported, resulting in the suspension of all Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways flights.

Pre-Oct. 7 Hamas plan revealed: Dig up WWI, WWII graves and blackmail Britain - report

Hamas planned to extort Britain with the bodies, intending to claim a payment and have Britain retract Liz Truss's comments on an embassy in Jerusalem.

A Palestinian police man walks between the graves of thousands of allied soldiers who died in the bloody Battle of Gaza during World War One at the Commonwealth War Gaza Cemetery in the Gaza Strip. More than 3,000 fallen soldiers came from Britain, New Zealand, India, South Africa and the West Indie

Caring for the graves of Jewish WWII soldiers, 80 years on 

Operation Benjamin: making sure the graves of Jewish American GIs who fell in World War II are properly marked.

 DR. STEWART SADOWSKY and Dr. Samantha Baskind lower the casket of First Lt. Nathan Baskind into the grave, overseen by Normandy American Cemetery superintendent Scott Desjardins.

'Your Presence Is Mandatory': Connecting Ukraine’s past and present

Traversing time and geography through literature.

 UKRAINIAN WAR prisoner, guarded by serviceman of the separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic army, awaits the next round of prisoner exchange, in Alexandrovka village

Jewish D-Day veteran buried in a Nazi mass grave to receive a proper burial

The group had never before uncovered a Jewish American who had been buried with the very Nazis he was fighting.

Troops in an LCVP landing craft approach Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944