Friday marked the 71st anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Above, smoke billows from the USS California, flagship of the Battle Force, after it was struck by two Japanese torpedoes. More on the attack and the USS California can be found here on the US Navy’s history site.
The oldest known survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp has died at the age of 108, an official said Monday.
Antoni Dobrowolski was a teacher who gave lessons in defiance of his native Poland’s Nazi occupiers. Dobrowolski died in the Polish town of Debno, according to Jaroslaw Mensfelt, a spokesman at the Auschwitz-Birkenau state museum.
(Source: abc.net.au)
68th D-Day anniversary
Photo: US World War II veteran Clarence ‘Mac’ Evans, 87, from West Virginia, who landed in Normandy on June 6, 1944, walks among the graves at the Colleville American military cemetery in western France on June 6, 2012, before the start of a ceremony commemorating the 68th anniversary of D-Day. Evans was searching for the tombs of 17 of his fellows who died that day. (Photo: Remy de la Mauviniere / AP, via msnbc.com)
WWII fighter plane found 70 years after crashing in Sahara Desert
NBC News and MSNBC.com: A well-preserved fighter plane that crashed in Egypt’s Sahara Desert during World War II has been found 70 years later, shedding new light on the pilot’s struggle to survive.
Photo: Jakub Perka via msnbc.com
