Remains of World War II POW buried at Arlington National Cemetery

Arthur Barrett, a Vermont native, was among thousands of service members captured and held at prisoner of war camps.

• Aug 31, 2023

Morgan Freeman on rescuing a Black WWII tank battalion from obscurity

The Oscar-winning actor talks about his History Channel documentary, "761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers," about one of only a few African American tank battalions that saw combat in World War II, a time when the armed forces were still segregated.

• Aug 13, 2023

Watch Oppenheimer discuss use of the atomic bomb in 1965 interview

Manhattan Project mastermind J. Robert Oppenheimer, often credited as the father of the atomic bomb, spoke with CBS News in 1965.

• Jul 20, 2023

Christopher Nolan on J. Robert Oppenheimer, "the most important person who ever lived"

In his latest film, the director examines the efforts of the physicist and his race to build the atomic bomb that ended World War II. What happened after the war proved to be an entirely different power struggle, as Oppenheimer was accused of being a Russian agent.

• Jul 16, 2023

U.S. soldier accounted for 8 decades after going MIA in World War II

Hom will be buried in Brooklyn, New York, on Oct. 11, the U.S. military said.

• Jul 12, 2023

Zelenskyy marks 500th day since invasion began

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Polish President Andrzej Duda on Sunday morning honored the victims of a World War II massacre of tens of thousands of Poles at the hands of Ukrainian nationalists — with the countries now united in the backdrop of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Charlie D'Agata reports from Ukraine.

• Jul 9, 2023
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Last French commando who took part in D-Day landings dies at 100

Leon Gautier was one of only 177 elite French troops who were able to join the brazen Allied attack on Nazi-occupied France in 1944.

• Jul 3, 2023

Diver finds long-lost WW2 submarine after searching for 25 years

HMS Triumph was officially declared missing with 64 people on board in January 1942.

• Jun 7, 2023

What happened on D-Day?

While D-Day and subsequent Battle of Normandy were gripping, the reason it is called D-Day is anticlimactic.

• Jun 6, 2023

AAPI Heritage Month: One woman's incredible story of determination and true grit

Her name is Kiyo Sato, and she just celebrated her 100th birthday.

• Jun 1, 2023

Remains of Indiana soldier killed during World War II identified

The remains of U.S. Army Pfc. Leonard E. Adams were accounted for in July of 2022 with the help of dental and anthropological analysis.

• May 30, 2023

Chinese barge suspected of "desecration" of WWII shipwrecks

More than 800 sailors were killed when the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse were torpedoed by Japanese aircraft — three days after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

• May 30, 2023

Large, unexploded WWII bomb forces 2,500 to evacuate in Poland

The 550-pound Germany aerial bomb was found near a railway overpass in the city of Wroclaw during construction work.

• May 26, 2023

U.S. warship sunk by "kamikaze bomb" during WWII found off Japan

84 U.S. sailors were killed in the sinking, according to the Naval History and Heritage Command.

• May 25, 2023

U.S. identifies remains of WWII soldier who vanished in 1944

More than 70 years passed before scientists determined that remains from a burnt-out tank found in Gey, Germany, could be those of the missing crewman Joe A. Vinyard.

• May 19, 2023

Putin marks "Victory Day" as Ukraine deflects his latest missile salvo

Vladimir Putin presided over a toned-down parade in Moscow as his war effort in Ukraine cost him more troops and more missiles, with little to show.

• May 9, 2023

Zelenskyy vows on VE Day to defeat Putin "just as Nazism was defeated"

As the world marked the anniversary of Nazi Germany's 1945 surrender, Russia, which helped beat Hitler, unleashed a fresh attack on its neighbor.

• May 8, 2023

Wreckage of sunken Japanese WWII ship found

The wreckage of a Japanese ship that was torpedoed during World War II off the coast of the Philippines has been found. The ship was carrying Allied prisoners of war, most of them Australians, when it sank in 1942. All 1,080 people aboard perished.

• Apr 22, 2023
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Explorers locate WWII ship sunk with over 1,000 Allied POWs

Those killed included 1,080 people from 14 nations.

• Apr 22, 2023

Ben Ferencz, last living Nuremberg prosecutor, dies at 103

Ferencz secured convictions for 22 former Nazi commanders who were charged with murdering over 1 million Jews, Gypsies and others.

• Apr 8, 2023

Auschwitz Memorial criticizes WWE for using image of concentration camp

"Exploiting the site that became a symbol of enormous human tragedy is shameless and insults the memory of all victims of Auschwitz."

• Apr 7, 2023

Remains of WWII airman identified 79 years after he was killed in action

The engineer was on board an aircraft that went down in southern England during the summer of 1944.

• Mar 27, 2023

Video shows huge World War II anti-ship mine being destroyed

Authorities sounded emergency sirens to mark the removal of the bomb with 1,500-pounds of explosives.

• Mar 20, 2023

Remains of WWII pilot who saved 7 airmen from crash identified after 79 years

William Montgomery steered a damaged aircraft from Germany to England so that his crew could safely parachute to land. He died in the plane crash.

• Mar 16, 2023

World War II airman from Texas identified 80 years after being killed in action

Frank C. Ferrel was 31 when he died in 1943. He was buried as an "unknown" for nearly a century.

• Mar 9, 2023

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