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WINDSOR, England (AP) – Prince Philip will be remembered as a man of “courage, fortitude and faith” on Saturday, at a funeral that salutes both his service in the Royal Navy and his support for Queen Elizabeth II over three-quarters of a century.

Burnie Sutter and his family were all smiles on Saturday as they watched a parade of about 100 cars help celebrate his 100th birthday.

Raymond Schaefer did not finish high school because he chose to serve in World War II, but on Thursday he finally received his long-awaited diploma.

A 96-year-old World War II veteran is still serving his country by knitting and donating hats to the Salvation Army.

DOJ announced over the weekend that it has sent a 95-year-old former guard at a World War II concentration camp prison back to Germany.

Churchill College at the University of Cambridge hosted an online talk in which academics claimed that Winston Churchill was a white supremacist and the British Empire “far worse” than Nazi Germany.

A World War II veteran celebrated a major milestone Thursday with the help of his son and city officials in Miami Beach, Florida.

BERLIN — Germany is moving to rid itself of a cluster of laws introduced by the Nazis, still lingering on its books 75 years after World War II.

A World War II veteran in North Charleston, South Carolina, got a huge surprise for his 100th birthday this week.

Prosecutors in Russia confirmed this week that they would investigate a Russian state circus performance involving a monkey dressed as a Nazi and goats wearing swastikas.

A South Korean court ordered Japan to pay compensation to the nation’s “comfort women,” sex slaves abducted during World War II, or their families, in an unprecedented ruling formally protested by Tokyo on Friday.

As the rest of the world rang in the New Year, neighbors in Lowell, Massachusetts, helped a World War II veteran celebrate his 105th birthday.

Hundreds of people helped an elderly veteran in Hanahan, South Carolina, celebrate his milestone birthday on Christmas Day.

The first pilot to break the sound barrier, World War II flying ace Gen. Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager, has died aged 97.

A veteran who repaired bomb damaged trains in France during World War II beat the coronavirus just before his 104th birthday Thursday in Birmingham, Alabama.

A 100-year-old World War II pilot in California who takes to the skies every week may be the oldest active pilot in the world.

Matt Naylor, president and CEO of the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri, joined Monday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Jerome Hudson to discuss his museum’s Memorial Day events, which included a parachuting event featuring a 92-year-old veteran.

Community members in Cincinnati, Ohio, gave a World War II veteran a surprise he will never forget for his birthday over the weekend.

The legacy of Britain’s wartime leader, Sir Winston Churchill, is reported to have been under review by the Imperial War Museum, in the latest blow against British history amid the iconoclastic Black Lives Matter unrest.

Community members in Blackfoot, Idaho, came together last week to give a local World War II veteran a very special gift.

BERLIN — A prominent European Jewish organization slammed a Munich auction house’s decision to sell several of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s handwritten speech notes, saying Tuesday it “defies logic, decency and humanity” to put them on the market.

Just days after a similar move by Facebook, Twitter has said it will remove all posts that deny the Holocaust — which the platform says violates its policy against spreading hateful content.

Germany has agreed to provide more than a half billion euros to aid Holocaust survivors struggling under the burdens of the coronavirus pandemic, the organization that negotiates compensation with the German government said Wednesday.

When President Trump entered Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to be treated for the coronavirus, it continued historic tradition.

A 97-year-old World War II veteran from Colorado received seven medals for his service 74 years later.

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine on Tuesday marked the 79th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre, one of the most infamous mass slaughters of World War II.

A World War II veteran’s son paid tribute to him with a flyover in the sky above his home in Virginia on Wednesday.

A World War II Marine veteran from Chesapeake, Virginia, celebrated his 96th birthday on Saturday with a car parade.

A 94-year-old World War II veteran received the Bronze Star Medal for his service in the Army at the California state capitol on Sunday.

America’s oldest World War II veteran received a military flyover for his 111th birthday on Saturday as the coronavirus changed plans for a more traditional birthday celebration.

The University of Rhode Island recently announced plans to remove two murals depicting the events of World War II due to their lack of diversity. The decision was prompted after students complained that the mural was not compatible with the university’s values of inclusivity. According to the school’s Vice President of Student Affairs, “Some of our students have even shared with us they didn’t feel comfortable sitting in that space.”

Decorated war hero Floyd Welch of East Lyme, Connecticut, died peacefully in his home on Monday.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday celebrated the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in Wilmington, North Carolina.

The BBC removed a musical version of a poem penned by Rudyard Kipling from the celebrations commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Victory over Japan Day, following complaints from a Jamaican-born opera singer, who claimed the poem has “cultural superiority” embedded in the verse.

Pope Francis marked the 75th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, while calling for a nuclear weapon-free world Sunday.

Historians have taken aim at the BBC for an unbalanced News at 10 segment which suggested Sir Winston Churchill was responsible for “mass killing” in Bengal.