The Story of the 442nd in Action - Slideshow: Rescue of the Lost Battalion

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Sir Nicholas Winton, who in 1939 rescued hundreds of Czechoslovak Jewsih children from Nazi transports, met PM Mirek Topolánek….   more

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A Firsthand Account of Post-War Berlin
Traute Grier was 16 years old when the Soviets cut off West Berlin from the rest of the world. Here, she recounts her desperate struggle for survival, her terror of the Russians and how friendships developed between the Americans and occupied Germans.

When the bombs rained down on Berlin on April [...]

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At the end of September 1941, Hitler appointed Reinhard Heydrich as acting Reichsprotektor of occupied Bohemia and Moravia. The radio reported on his inauguration at Prague Castle, and the sound of the SS military band hammering out the German national anthem followed by the Horst Wessel song still sends a shiver down the spine.
Heydrich was [...]

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The 1941 sinking of the HMAS Sydney was Australia’s worst naval disaster ever. For six decades, Australians have been wondering how the pride of its navy could have been sunk by a lightly-armed German cruiser. Now, that mystery might finally be solved.
One of Australia’s greatest military mysteries might be solved with the discovery of a [...]

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ROCKWELL - Luther Goodman thought he was headed to a belated Christmas celebration Sunday afternoon.
After all, Goodman, 88, has been in the Hefner VA Medical Center a fair amount since early December, recovering from a blood clot in his left leg.
Because of his medical problems, Goodman didn’t have much of an opportunity to celebrate Christmas [...]

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Electric lighting.  A railroad.  An air ventilation system.  Against incredible odds, the Allied airmen imprisoned at the Nazi POW camp Stalag Luft III secretly engineered these and other technological marvels 30 feet underground in the three escape tunnels they named “Tom,” “Dick,” and “Harry.” They used only tools that they could manufacture themselves out of [...]

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A monument to the US President Woodrow Wilson will be re-erected in Prague, a City Hall official said on Thursday after a meeting with a representative of the US Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad.  Five sites have been chosen where the memorial might be positioned.  The original monument was built in 1928 [...]

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The remains of William Kiggins, an American pilot who crashed in Brno at the end of World War II, are being returned to the US, over 63 years after his death.  A local woman of 75 who remembered the crash helped researchers find the wreck of his P-51 Mustang plane Miss Betty last year.  After [...]

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Of the original 16 million World War II veterans, a mere 3.5 million survive today. Many of them descended upon Washington, D.C., for Veterans Day, to remember, celebrate and honor their comrades.
To see, touch and feel the World War II Memorial, which opened to the public in April 2004, is an opportunity some men thought [...]

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