WORLD WAR II popularity and WORLD WAR II trends

The historic battleship Iowa is slated to sail under the Golden Gate Bridge on Saturday during its final voyage from the Bay Area, heading to its future home at the Port of Los Angeles. The 14-story, 800-foot-long ship that saw action during World War II, the Korean War and through the 1980s, is scheduled to depart the Port of Richmond at about 11 a.m. if the weather cooperates. The ship was b...

AN unexploded World War I bomb has been found in a Victorian museum.

Set in the landscape of World War II Britain and featuring women pilots and spies, the intricate plot of Code Name Verity involves espionage, Nazis, the Resistance, and occupied France.

By Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) Over the next five years, more than a million military service members will return to civilian...

The massacre, Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two, helped finally to galvanize Western powers into launching air strikes on Serb forces to bring the 1992-95 Bosnian war to an end.

Swaths of academics and historians have descended upon the Greek island of Thasos to investigate newfound airplane wreckage on the side of a mountain. But it is a local amateur sleuth who may be the closest to solving a 95-year-old mystery involving the disappearance of a Canadian First World War pilot. Details on the life ...

Like other countries of Western Europe, Belgium celebrates in early May the end of World War II.

World War II veterans who served on Arctic convoys should be given a dedicated campaign medal, Scottish government minister Keith Brown says.

MOSCOW — Russia commemorated its World War II victory Wednesday, reminding its citizens of their capacity for suffering and sacrifice. With the weather brought to heel for the moment, 14,000 uniformed men marched smartly through Red Square, and President Vladimir Putin spoke of glory, triumph and grief. Read full article >>

In his last state ceremony as France's president, Nicolas Sarkozy led commemorations yesterday in Paris marking the end of the Second World War in Europe, standing next to the man who ousted him.

Nicolas Sarkozy led commemorations in Paris marking the end of World War II in Europe.

After more than a decade of war, President Barack Obama called on Americans to turn their attention to the home front and honor the “new greatest generation” by building a country worthy of their sacrifices in Iraq and Afghanistan. Invoking the spirit and the nickname of the generation of Americans who fought and won World War II, Obama called on Americans to focus on rebuilding at home. “As a...

Company hails 'biggest UK catering event since Second World War'.

Sniper Elite V2 is an enjoyable, if limited, twist on the World War II shooter, writes Tom Hoggins.

The US and Japan have reached a deal to remove some 9,000 US Marines from Okinawa, where US forces have been stationed since World War II.

Ireland before the first World War was a stage set for revolution - nationalism's growing, evolving appeal complemented by the emergence of the labour and women's movements The growth of nationalist fervour was matched by the emergence of other social movements, not least trade unions - British Liberal MP and former miner, William Brace, addresses workers on Sackville Street (O'Connell Street) ...

In World War II, it could take up to 30,000 bombing runs over a period of weeks to destroy a thousand ground targets. Yesterday in North Carolina, a single U.S. Air Force fighter wing hit 1,000 targets in a single sweep, using just 70 or so Boeing F-15E Strike Eagles. It took merely a couple hours.

WORLD War One galleries at the Australian War Memorial will given a $27 million facelift in time for the Anzac Centenary.

Declaring the Nobel winner 'persona non grata' puts Israel in a position hard to sustain

Big U.S. companies have emerged from the deepest recession since World War II more productive and more profitable, but the performance hasn't translated into significant gains in U.S. employment.

A series of corruption scandals, severe infighting at the top order, weapons that date back to the Second World War; suddenly India’s defense establishment seems to be a house of cards for a common man, so fragile that it can collapse anytime.

BERLIN (Reuters) - John Demjanjuk, a retired U.S. engine mechanic convicted for his role in killing 28,000 Jews as a guard at a Nazi death camp during World War Two, died on Saturday aged 91 in a care home in Germany, police said.

In York, Pa., he speaks of his father living at the local YMCA. In front of Toledo autoworkers, he calls himself the “son of an automobile man.” In Media, Pa., he is the “grandson of Ambrose Finnegan,” a Scranton ad man turned gas company worker. But he is also the great-grandson, on his mother’s side, of Edward F. Blewitt, a member of the Pennsylvania state Senate. On his paternal side, he is ...

The first kind of its war, the world had ever seen before, was started by states based on the creed of Capitalism. World War 1, was called as the Great Game. A Game, in between which a plan was meticulously put forth to achieve, what the Imperial west had tried for centuries in vain, i.e. to put an end to the Caliphate. In 1916 the French and the British governments colluded in secret ...

Libya's leadership apologizes after armed men smash the graves of British and Italian soldiers killed during World War Two.

World War II sitcom Chickens - created by Inbetweeners stars Joe Thomas and Simon Bird, and comedian Jonny Sweet - is picked up by Sky1 HD.

1944. World War II rages and the fate of the free world hangs in the balance. Meanwhile the black pilots of the experimental Tuskegee training program are courageously waging two wars at once - one against enemies overseas, and the other against discrimination within the military and back home.

A grass-roots effort to promote movies about black people has pushed a World War II film on black fighter pilots to do better than expected.

Downton Abbey is getting a new resident, and you can bet she'll bring more than enough dramatic baggage! The hit British TV series about an aristocratic family circa World War I has...

The United Nations held today a remembrance service to honour the memory of the estimated six million Jews and countless others killed in the Nazi death camps during the Second World War, highlighting the need to protect children from the scourges of war.

The discovery of an unexploded World War Two bomb forced the postponement of Thursday's medal ceremony at the Winter Youth Olympics in Innsbruck.

"There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard." -Jean Cocteau Some traditions are older than we even know. Older than our great-grandparents, older than our countries, older even than the oldest songs and music we know of, which comes to you today courtesy of Planxty, the story of the 1580 defeat of the Brit...

FLASH FICTION:SURE, YOU know what Christmas is like. They even stopped fighting for a day in World War One. No fear of that in our house.

These are some of the tips Greeks used to survive the World War II occupation that have been collected in "Starvation Recipes."

A Dublin concert aims to raise funds for building a sports park at Messines, Belgium, to commemorate the Christmas truce that temporarily halted the first World War.

Could the United Nations have defeated Adolf Hitler during the Second World War? Actually, according to Dan Plesch, a British scholar at London University, it did. In a provocative new book, The United Nations, Hitler and America, he explores the United Nations' roots as a World War II military alliance,and argues that it harnessed the soft power of multilateral cooperat...

Walk around Westminster, and there is not the slightest hint that Britain has recently fought four wars, with a fifth still under way. Within half a mile of the Cenotaph there are monuments to Clive of India, the Women of World War II and a new one, just outside the Foreign Office, listing every victim of the 2002 Bali nightclub bomb.The names of the fallen in Iraq and Afghanistan, however, are...

Was für ein seltener Anblick! Wir freuen uns zwar über Schnappschüsse von Brad Pitt am Set seines neuen Streifens World War Z oder wenn wir Angelina Jolie bei einer ihren...