REGINA—It was during his first year of study at the University of Saskatchewan in pursuit of an agricultural degree, as World War II engulfed the world, that Osborne Lakness felt the call to join the military. “My friends got together and said, well what are we doing here? Our [other] friends are going to serve…
‘Prairie Boys Made the Best Sailors’: 99-Year-Old Navy Vet Recounts His WWII Experience
The 24th Infantry Division in Korea | The Korean War Remembered Episode 5｜Documentary
This program from 1954 recounts the contributions of the 24th Infantry Division to the Korean War. A unit with a storied history in WWII, they were the first to see action when war broke out on the Korean Peninsula. – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films Follow EpochTV on…
Urban Explorers Enter Abandoned WWII Archives Facility in England, Find Trove of Rusted Wartime Artifacts
Explorers of abandoned urban spaces have located what was once used as an archives store in WWII—and they delved inside to reveal its contents. The vloggers behind the YouTube channel “Urbanexboi” came across the abandoned facility while investigation an oil depot in Bristol, UK. The adventure seekers say they were shocked to find that the archives…
PHOTOS: Urban Explorers Enter Abandoned WWII Archives Facility in England, Find Trove of Rusted Wartime Artifacts
Explorers of abandoned urban spaces have located what was once used as an archives store in WWII—and they delved inside to reveal its contents. The vloggers behind the YouTube channel “Urbanexboi” came across the abandoned facility while investigation an oil depot in Bristol, UK. The adventure seekers say they were shocked to find that the archives…
Dutch Princess Margriet Honours Canadian General Who Liberated Her Nation in WWII
Princess Margriet of the Netherlands paid tribute to the Canadian who negotiated the surrender of the Nazis in her country in 1945. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau greeted the princess with a fist bump at the National Military Cemetery in Ottawa, which was blooming with tulips—a flower that has come to symbolize the relationship between the…
WWI Nurse Restored 900-Year-Old Norman House; Her War-Time Music Room Is Still Unchanged
The owner and resident of one of the two oldest, continually inhabited houses in Britain tells the story of her mother-in-law’s epic restoration of the 900-year-old home to its original Norman state. The home is now a beautiful, tangible record of times past, and a tourist attraction in eastern England. Diana Boston’s mother-in-law, Lucy Boston,…
The Profound Near-Death Experience of a Nazi Concentration Camp Survivor
April 29, 2022
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Tienke Klein’s health remained poor after she was released from a Nazi concentration camp. After a long recovery from the trauma she’d endured, she finally reached the point of not needing to visit her doctor regularly. Then she was hit by a car while bicycling. The experience would release her from the prison camp she’d…
Georgia Couple Who Both Served in WWII Celebrate 100th Birthday and 73rd Anniversary This Year
A longevous couple from Johnson County, Georgia, have spent the last 72 years happily married together. More remarkably, the pair, Josephine and Wilbur “Flip” Jackson, this year celebrated another notable milestone—they both turned 100 years old. He celebrated his big day in early February, while she had hers six months earlier. The pair first met on a…
Oldest US Veteran of WWII, Lawrence N. Brooks, Dies at 112
NEW ORLEANS—Lawrence N. Brooks, the oldest World War II veteran in the U.S.—and believed to be the oldest man in the country—died on Wednesday at the age of 112. His death was announced by the National WWII Museum and confirmed by his daughter. Most African Americans serving in the segregated U.S. armed forces at the…
Local WWII Vets Honored at Pearl Harbor Commemoration
December 6, 2021
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OAHU, Hawaii—Seven local WWII veterans will participate Dec. 7 in Pearl Harbor ceremonies, commemorating the 1941 attack by the Japanese that killed more than 2,400 service members and civilians and forced the United States into the war. The seven—who range in age from 93 to 101 years old—are among about 240,000 veterans of the war…
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