LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.’s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II ... Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith, Plowright ...
Netflix's 'Six Triple Eight' tells the heroic true story of the only all-Black, all-female battalion in WWII, led by Tyler Perry and starring Kerry Washington.
A piece of local history is getting national attention after receiving an Oscar nomination for best original song. At the end of 2024, Netflix released “The Six
Sisters in Science” tells of the rise of female scientists in 1930s Germany – some of whom were Jewish – whose careers were ended by Adolf Hitler.
Excuse me, but there’s something wrong here,’ she said. ‘I’m standing and you’re sitting.’ When the men looked up, my mother pointed to her
Feb. 3 is the 82nd anniversary of the sinking of the USAT Dorchester in the north Atlantic Ocean by a German U-boat. The disaster also created one of World War II’s most enduring symbols of valor, service,
The last survivor of the American team that competed in Hitler’s 1936 Games in Berlin, she went on to become a wartime pilot and an aeronautics instructor.
Iris Cummings Critchell, an aviation pioneer who was believed to be the last living Olympian from the 1936 Berlin Games, died last Friday at age 104. Her death was confirmed by the IOC and by Harvey Mudd College,
Several weeks earlier, the Palawan Massacre took place in the Philippines, where 139 American POWs were killed by Japanese soldiers, according to the Soldiers Memorial Military Museum. This caused U.S. forces to get nervous and to “develop a sense of urgency,” Huit said.
A free symposium at the museum Feb. 15 will look at African American engagment in World War II and its place in social progress.
Recording Evil,' a landmark documentary project exposing the largest spy operation in WWII, is based on declassified British intelligence documents.
This is the fourth part in a series of special history columns about World War II. Almost two months into the fighting of World War II with enemies in the Pacific and in Europe, Cobb County had become a hive of activity with everyone doing something to support the war effort.