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A Gold Medal for America’s Rosies, the Women on the Home Front
Rosie the Riveters, American women who filled a crucial labor shortage during World War II and...
Lou Conter, Last Survivor of the Battleship Arizona, Dies at 102
Escaping injury in the Japanese attack on the ship in Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941,...
‘Oppenheimer’ Opens in Nuclear-Scarred Japan, 8 Months After U.S. Premiere
While some viewers lamented the movie’s exclusion of scenes from Hiroshima or Nagasaki, others said they...
Amnon Weinstein, Who Restored Violins From the Holocaust, Dies at 84
Many were left behind by victims of the gas chambers. He let the instruments be heard...
Opinion | Surviving the Ugliness of It All
Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt offered the confidence in our country that we need right...
Josette Molland, Who Told of Life in Nazi Camps Through Art, Dies at 100
She endured horrors as a captured member of the French Resistance, and to ensure that her...
Mike Sadler, Intrepid Desert Navigator in World War II, Dies at 103
Like a human GPS, he guided Britain’s first special forces across the vast Sahara for hit-and-run...
Maureen Flavin Sweeney Dies at 100; Her Weather Report Delayed D-Day
She helped save General Eisenhower’s invasion from potential disaster, enabling the Allies to gain a foothold...
