SJSU’s apology for 1942 role in citizens’ detentions
Just one day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appeared in the House of Representatives to address a joint session of …
World War II
‘Seoul wants better ties’: why Yoon isn’t upset over Japan’s demolished monument for wartime labourers
Built in 2004, the memorial took the form of a stone wall with a plaque bearing the message “Remembrance, Reflection and Friendship” in Korean, Japanese and English, and a four-metre-tall …
Elon Musk visits Auschwitz after uproar over antisemitic messages on X
Elon Musk, who has been accused of allowing antisemitic messages on his social media platform, X, visited the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp on Monday. Musk’s visit to the …
Sale of US Steel Corp to Japanese rival sparks outrage over lack of apology for POW abuse: ‘ethical value is zero’
Those complaints, however, were focused narrowly on concern over the “dire implications for the industrial base of the United States”, according to a letter signed by three Republican senators addressed …
New exhibit tells story of Colorado’s 10th Mountain Division
The saga of the 10th Mountain Division “ski troops” who trained for mountain warfare at Camp Hale near Leadville during World War II, and their subsequent combat heroism in northern …
Pearl Harbor survivor recounts day of infamy, honoring veterans at Mount Diablo beacon lighting
CONCORD — At the ripe age of 99, Earl “Chuck” Kohler is among the last of a quickly vanishing generation that personally remembers the terror that rained down on Pearl …
Missing U.S. airman is accounted for 79 years after bomber “Queen Marlene” shot down in France
A U.S. Army Air Force gunner’s remains have been accounted for nearly eight decades after the heavy bomber he was flying in was shot down over France during World War …
Honoring America’s war dead far from home
It’s a continuing tribute half a world away, with a simple brush and bucket of water. Three days a week, a team of 20 in southern Italy washes each of …
Liberation Pavilion seeks to serve as a reminder of the horrors of WWII and the Holocaust
New Orleans — On the sprawling campus of the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, the newly-opened Liberation Pavilion may be its most important exhibit hall, detailing the …
Man sentenced for projecting antisemitic conspiracy theory onto Anne Frank House Museum
A prominent member of a neo-Nazi group was sentenced to two months in prison for projecting an antisemitic conspiracy theory onto the Anne Frank House Museum, the Amsterdam building in …