War -- history
New hero, fresh heartbreak
An Army widow shares memories of her late husband
Date: 05/28/2012 | Business
Remembering his past
Snohomish veteran and POW visits WWII sites in Europe
Date: 05/27/2012 | Local News
Remains of lost Cold War-era airman to be buried
SAN FRANCISCO -- The remains of an Air Force gunner who was lost during a mock nuclear attack on San Francisco in 1950 were finally laid to rest on Friday.
Date: 05/25/2012 | Nation & World
Several local events planned to honor war dead
Memorial Day is Monday and events are planned throughout Snohomish County to honor those who died serving our country. On Memorial Day, U.S. flags that can be lowered should be flown at half staff until noon, then raised to full staff for the remainder of the day.
Date: 05/24/2012 | Local News
Snohomish War Memorial to get temporary home
SNOHOMISH -- A monument honoring fallen soldiers from the Snohomish area is being relocated.
Date: 05/18/2012 | Local News
GI killed in Vietnam War gets Medal of Honor
WASHINGTON — Leslie Sabo's Vietnam War ended in the flash of his own grenade, hurled at an enemy bunker in Cambodia to save surrounded comrades. Forty years later — and a dozen years after the long-lost paperwork turned up in military archives — he was honored by President Obama...
Date: 05/16/2012 | Nation & World
Panel discusses AP reporter's WWII surrender scoop
NEW YORK -- Speakers at a panel on Tuesday disagreed over whether a correspondent for The Associated Press who defied military censors by reporting that the Germans had surrendered unconditionally in World War II had acted properly.
Date: 05/09/2012 | Nation & World
WWII’s Doolittle Raiders mark 70 years
DAYTON, Ohio -- A flyover by World War II bomber planes, Chinese visitors and a memorial ceremony with four Doolittle's Raiders helped mark the 70th anniversary Wednesday of the daring U.S. air attack on Japan.
Date: 04/19/2012 | Nation & World
Holocaust survivor’s story one of hope over hate
Henry Friedman lived through unspeakable suffering -- and yet he speaks. He is a Holocaust survivor. Some of his memories stretch the limits of human endurance.His answer to evil is hope. That's why he tells what happened to his family 70 years ago. He tells his story again and again.
Date: 04/18/2012 | Local News
Park service website offers Civil War guide
The National Park Service has launched a website that provides an overview of the Civil War and a guide to more than 1,700 sites around the nation related to the war that divided the nation.
Date: 04/07/2012 | Life
68 years later, they finally meet
WWII veterans share history and now a friendship
Date: 04/06/2012 | Local News
U.S. suspends recovery of troop remains in North Korea
WASHINGTON -- The United States said Wednesday it is suspending efforts to recover remains of thousands of fallen service members in North Korea, the latest sign that a recent thaw in relations is over.
Date: 03/21/2012 | Nation & World
Aircraft carrier USS Enterprise girds for final deployment
NORFOLK, Virginia — When the makers of "Top Gun" were filming on board the USS Enterprise, they donated a set of black fuzzy dice to liven up the ship's otherwise drab interior.
Date: 03/10/2012 | Nation & World
Holocaust survivor tells Lake Stevens students about experiences
LAKE STEVENS -- Fred Taucher stood near a black and white photograph of a woman projected on a screen set inside Cavelero Mid High School.
Date: 03/05/2012 | Local News
Faces of 2 USS Monitor crewmen reconstructed
RICHMOND, Va. -- When the turret of the USS Monitor was raised from the ocean bottom, two skeletons and the tattered remnants of their uniforms were found in the rusted hulk of the Union Civil War ironclad, mute and nameless witnesses to the cost of war. A rubber comb was found by one of the...
Date: 03/04/2012 | Nation & World
'Band of Brothers' soldier dies at 90
BURLINGTON -- Lynn D. "Buck" Compton, a veteran whose World War II exploits were depicted in the HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers," has died, his family said.Compton died Saturday in Burlington after having a heart attack last month, the family told the Los Angeles Times in a story Tuesday.
Date: 02/28/2012 | Northwest
Dogged Vietnam War reporter George Esper dies at 79
George Esper, the tenacious Associated Press correspondent who refused to leave his post in the last days of the Vietnam War, remaining behind to cover the fall of Saigon, has died. He was 79.
Date: 02/03/2012 | Nation & World
$3 billion wreck found, treasure hunter claims
PORTLAND, Maine -- A treasure hunter said Wednesday he has located the wreck of a British merchant ship that was torpedoed by a German U-boat off Cape Cod during World War II while carrying what he claims was a load of platinum bars now worth more than $3 billion.
Date: 02/02/2012 | Nation & World
First clear look at Confederate submarine Hunley since 1864
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — The world got an unobstructed view of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley for the first time since the Civil War on Thursday as a massive steel truss that had surrounded the first sub in history to sink an enemy warship was finally removed.
Date: 01/12/2012 | Nation & World
Dwight Eisenhower family wants memorial redesigned
WASHINGTON — President Dwight D. Eisenhower's family wants a memorial in the nation's capital redesigned, saying the current plans overemphasize his humble Kansas roots and neglect his accomplishments in World War II and the White House.
Date: 01/11/2012 | Nation & World
Seattle native who resisted internment dies in Canada
EDMONTON, Alberta -- A sociologist who refused to be sent to internment camps that kept more than 100,000 Japanese-Americans captive during World War II has died in the Canadian city of Edmonton.
Date: 01/03/2012 | Northwest
New painting corrects President Washington's crossing of Delaware
NEW YORK — One of America's most famous images, a painting of George Washington crossing the Delaware River, got much of the story wrong: The American commander wouldn't have stood triumphantly on a rowboat in daylight, but on a ferry bracing himself against a fierce snowstorm on Christmas...
Date: 12/26/2011 | Nation & World
Ashes of Pearl Harbor survivor are interred at battleship
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- A Marine who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor has returned to the USS Arizona -- divers placed the urn holding Frank Cabiness' cremated remains inside the battleship sunk by the Japanese 70 years ago.
Date: 12/24/2011 | Nation & World
WWI vet to be considered for honor that anti-Semitism may have thwarted
WASHINGTON -- Almost a century after her father's act of wartime bravery, 82-year-old Elsie Shemin-Roth of Missouri is nearing the end of her own determined battle.
Date: 12/20/2011 | Nation & World
Family covets sketch of hero
Holding such a precious portrait was a once-in-a-lifetime honor.
Date: 12/12/2011 | Local News
Nation marks 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor
In wheelchairs and on walkers, the old veterans came Wednesday to remember the day 70 years ago when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. But FDR's "date that will live in infamy" is becoming a more distant memory.
Date: 12/07/2011 | Nation & World
Pearl Harbor remembered
HONOLULU -- Clarence Pfundheller was standing in front of his locker on the USS Maryland when a fellow sailor told him they were being bombed by Japanese planes.
Date: 12/07/2011 | Nation & World
16,000 Holocaust victims to get German pensions
NEW YORK -- After a year of tough negotiations, Germany has agreed to pay pensions to about 16,000 additional Holocaust victims worldwide -- mostly survivors who were once starving children in Nazi ghettos, or were forced to live in hiding for fear of death.
Date: 12/05/2011 | Nation & World
Everett man shares 91 years of wisdom, kindness and virtue
Kids, you didn't invent texting. Carle Graffunder of Everett was a World War II hero who relayed military messages hither and yon from Alaska.He used the dot-dash method.
Date: 12/05/2011 | Local News
Life Story: Camano Island minister Jack Mote marched with Martin Luther King Jr.
Jack Mote took a stance on his pacifist beliefs at the start of World War II when he declared himself to be a conscientious objector. He ended up serving his country and he entered the ministry after the war.
Date: 11/20/2011 | Local News
Northwest communities alter Cold War economies
YAKIMA -- In a remote pocket of the inland Pacific Northwest, World War II weapons production and storage built a booming economy that continued through the Cold War. The region flourished even as efforts shifted in the 1980s toward cleanup and disposal of chemical agents and radioactive...
Date: 11/14/2011 | Northwest
War is long over, but memories endure for Monroe veteran
On June 5, 1944, just before D-Day, Joseph Burkard jumped from an airplane. His regiment landed about four miles inland from the beaches of Normandy.
Date: 11/11/2011 | Local News
Japanese WWII submarine found off Papua New Guinea
CANBERRA, Australia — A Japanese World War II submarine wreck was found partially buried in the seabed of a Papua New Guinea harbor during a search for unexploded munitions, Australia's military said Friday.
Date: 10/28/2011 | Nation & World
Polish Battle of Britain pilot dies at 97
WARSAW, Poland -- A Polish World War II airman, believed to be the last surviving Polish pilot from the Battle of Britain, has died at the age of 97 in a Canadian nursing home.
Date: 10/27/2011 | Nation & World
Pentagon to resume N. Korea talks after 6-year break
WASHINGTON -- After a six-year hiatus, the Pentagon has agreed to negotiate with North Korea on resuming an effort to recover remains of the estimated 5,500 U.S. service members unaccounted for from the Korean War.
Date: 10/17/2011 | Nation & World
Lee Davenport, WWII radar developer, dies at 95
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Lee Davenport, a physicist who developed a radar device that helped U.S. and allied troops win key battles in World War II, has died. He was 95.He died Friday of cancer in Greenwich, his daughter, Carol Davenport, said Tuesday.
Date: 10/04/2011 | Nation & World
Memorial site to mark Japanese American detention
FRESNO, Calif. -- When 81-year-old Saburo Masada gazes over the Fresno County Fairgrounds racetrack from the grandstand, he sees ghosts. Not of horses, which he watched gallop around the track as a young boy. But of parents and children pressed into makeshift barracks, forced to live for months in...
Date: 10/02/2011 | Northwest
Front Porch: B-25s fly with other historic aircraft at Paine Field today
B-25 bombers fly At noon today, the Flying Heritage Collection and Historic Flight Foundation offer a final Free Summer Fly Day for this year.Two B-25 bombers will fly side by side.
Date: 09/24/2011 | Local News
Before the smoke cleared, Edmonds veteran knew sacrifices lay ahead
Boyce Clark will never forget the warriors.How could he?The 84-year-old Edmonds man, a Marine Corps veteran, was wounded twice in the Korean War. The second time, he lost his left arm.
Date: 09/11/2011 | Local News
Best buddies during WWII
USS Enterprise crewmates reunite after 66 years
Date: 08/23/2011 | Local News
Nagasaki remembers bombing, U.S. has representative
TOKYO -- The U.S. sent its first representative Tuesday to the annual memorial for the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, one of two horrific attacks that led Japan to surrender in World War II.
Date: 08/09/2011 | Nation & World
Life Story: Everett’s John Benedetto, a musician who played for soldiers in war, veterans in peace
EVERETT -- John Benedetto played in a U.S. Army band during World War II. One of eight children -- each of the five brothers served in a different branch of the armed forces -- he was part of the 42nd Infantry "Rainbow" Division that helped liberate Europe...
Date: 07/31/2011 | Local News
Former South Vietnam leader Nguyen Cao Ky dies
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Nguyen Cao Ky, the flamboyant former air force general who ruled South Vietnam with an iron fist for two years during the Vietnam War, died Saturday. He was 80.
Date: 07/23/2011 | Nation & World
'Junk in the trunk' event delivered the goods
"Junk in the Trunk" was not all that.
Date: 07/22/2011 | Local News
Primed to fly again
B-25 will debut at Paine Field after a dozen-year restoration
Date: 07/15/2011 | Business
‘City of Life and Death’ a grim retelling of Japanese atrocities in 1930s China
In some ways it was overshadowed by the future atrocities of World War II, but Japan's invasion of China in 1937 and the Rape of Nanking that followed were landmarks in the history of horror and barbarism.
Date: 07/08/2011 | Entertainment
WWII veteran among those riding in Arlington’s July 4 parade
Take a moment to recognize who is riding in the veterans' truck during Arlington's July 4 parade. Those folks served our country and preserved our freedom.
Date: 06/22/2011 | Local News
Front Porch: B-17 scheduled to fly into Paine Field today
B-17 comes to EverettThe Collings Foundation's Wings of Freedom Tour and its B-17 Flying Fortress are scheduled to visit the Snohomish County Airport Flying Heritage Collection at 3407 109th St. SW in Everett.
Date: 06/17/2011 | Local News
WWII B-17 destroyed in emergency landing
OSWEGO, Ill. -- A World War II bomber made what appeared to be an emergency landing in a cornfield Monday and all seven people on board escaped before it was consumed by fire, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Date: 06/13/2011 | Nation & World
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