WWII

While many Americans were rightfully concerned about the Chinese spy balloon that President Joe Biden allowed to fly over the continental U.S. for several days, this was not the first time a foreign nation sent a balloon to the mainland. 

Buzz Bissinger, author of the classic novel “Friday Night Lights,” joined “Breitbart News Saturday” host Matthew Boyle to discuss his most recent book, “The Mosquito Bowl,” a true story about a military football game played during World War II.

What almost was a missed opportunity became a wonderful moment at a gas station in Northfield Village, Ohio, between a black man and a white World War II veteran, who recalled his experience on the battlefield with his black battalion. “THIS is who we are,” said the man, who thanked the WWII veteran for his service.

The dog tags of two members of the “Band of Brothers” WWI unit from the epic 2001 Tom Hanks-HBO miniseries has been found in a dig in England.

Wolfgang Schwanitz, the former head of Communist East-Germany’s infamous secret police, the Stasi, has died aged 91.

A delegation of nearly 100 Japanese legislators visited Japan’s Yasukuni Shrine on Tuesday, which honors Japanese military casualties, including those from World War II and “convicted war criminals,” Kyodo News reported.

Most of the “baddest actors” charged at the Nuremberg Trials escaped justice, Dean Reuter, general counsel and vice president at the Federalist Society and co-author of The Hidden Nazi: The Untold Story of America’s Deal with the Devil, stated on Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily.

The former president played the clip of the speech from the movie “Patton” before beginning his rally, recalling the fighting spirit of America in World War II.

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.

The Department of Veteran’s Affairs (VA) has sparked outcries after prohibiting the traditional Memorial Day weekend flag placements.

First Lady Melania Trump was sharp and sleek as she attended a ceremony commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Victory in Europe at the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. on Friday. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un a commemorative war medal to mark the 75th anniversary of the victory of Britain, Russia, and other allied forces over Nazi Germany in World War II, the Russian embassy in Pyongyang announced on Tuesday.

General Hans Kammler, a Nazi SS commander who designed the Third Reich’s network of concentration camps and V-2 rocket program, likely escaped Europe with aid from the U.S. government in exchange for intelligence, explained by Dean Reuter.

Nazi officials preserved assets, weapons research, and personnel for a Fourth Reich that never came to be, explained Dean Reuter.

Eighty years after the first Nazi bombs fell on Poland, echoes of the blasts can be heard in the bickering between Warsaw and Berlin over the possibility of billions of euros in war reparations.

Ultimately, the American involvement at D-Day boiled down to the grit, initiative, and leadership of American’s greatest asset—the individual soldier.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said on Tuesday she would save the planet from climate change with a “carbon-neutral”-powered federal government.

A 96-year-old World War II veteran rose from his wheelchair at the the U.S. Women’s National Team game against Mexico on Sunday, and played a stirring rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner on his harmonica.

Military historian Patrick K. O’Donnell described America’s need “to be prepared” as a primary lesson of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Jenna Bush Hager, the daughter of former President George W. Bush and granddaughter of the late former President George H.W. Bush, shared memories on Instagram Saturday morning of her grandfather and his fearless thoughts about death.

The Dutch national railway company says it will set up a commission to investigate how it can pay individual reparations for its role in mass deportations of Jews by Nazi occupiers during World War II.

Victor Davis Hanson said Emmanuel Macron’s proposal for an EU army is “absurd” given France’s failure to meet its financial NATO commitments.

Thieves have stolen more than £1,500 from an 84-year-old military hero who was selling poppies to raise money for veterans at a shopping centre.

The remains of a World War II soldier from West Texas were laid to rest on Monday 74 years after he went missing in action from a German battlefield. This was the result of a sister’s unwavering five decade long search to find her brother’s remains and bring them home.

WASHINGTON, DC — Open borders protesters in Washington, DC, laid the defamatory slurs on thick in protest signs attacking President Trump, his administration, and Republicans as racists on the basis of separating minors from adults who illegally cross the U.S. southern border.

In a scene reminiscent of a World War I battle, Germans and Americans stared at each other across a vast no man’s land. Lt. Leonard Lomell and his fellow Rangers gazed across the icy, flat expanse. They realized it made an ideal killing field.

Samuel Tom Holiday, one of the last surviving World War II Navajo code talkers, passed away in Utah on Monday.

Most Americans think of General George S. Patton as the great commander of U.S. forces in North Africa and Europe in World War II, but fewer know that the colorful and charismatic officer also played a key role in World War I — and here he learned to command.

With Memorial Day weekend upon us, patriots may want to spend a few hours remembering some of our greatest war films. Here we will talk briefly about over thirty war films. Some stir the patriot’s blood, others are amusing, many harrowing, still more are foreboding with a subtle anti-war message.

“God, cigars and a little bit of whiskey” have gotten WWII veteran Richard Overton to his 112th birthday.

A man who has made it his quest to interview every living World War II veteran admitted Tuesday in an interview that he learned more from interviewing the veterans than anything he learned in school.

A submarine long theorized to have transported Nazi officials to South America has finally been found — sunken near Denmark.

A French historian specializing in World War II history was sentenced to nearly a year in prison for stealing dog tags belonging to U.S. servicemen who perished in a plane crash during WWII, officials announced Tuesday.

The French Ambassador to the U.S. has used Pearl Harbor Day to attack America’s role in the Second World War, insinuating the U.S. betrayed France by not fighting in the early years of the conflict.

An 83-year-old Holocaust survivor donated $1 million to help wounded veterans. He made two donations in memory of the American soldiers who saved his life.

The Independent news website has published an article arguing that Brexit supporters should think twice about wearing a poppy as they have effectively betrayed war heroes by voting to leave the European Union (EU).