Here’s a look at the life of award-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave. Personal Birth date: January 30, 1937 Birth place: London, England Birth name: Vanessa Redgrave Father: Sir Michael Redgrave, actor Mother: Rachel Kempson,
The videos were shown to Air Force troops as part of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) courses they took during basic military training.
The decision has sparked backlash from advocacy groups, particularly Tuskegee Airmen Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to preserving the unit's legacy.
PFC Peter Dudenich of Ambridge and PVT William Patrick Nairn of Aliquippa are among 58 Pennsylvania soldiers who died the morning of Jan. 26, 1944, when their ship struck a Nazi mine being remembered today by volunteers from the nonprofit Stories Behind the Stars, who have written memories on each of the state's victims of the explosion.
Brookfield, 98, and a longtime resident of Whittier, was born in Chemnitz, Germany, the only child of Willy and Dora Fleischmann. On Saturday, she shared her memories in advance of International Holocaust Memorial Day, marked this year on Monday. She was 11 in 1936 when she remembers other children in her school learning to be cruel.
An original painting of a WWII B-17 Superfortress Bomber created by David Jakupca, a Berea resident, U.S. Army Vietnam War veteran and environmental artist, has become a permanent exhibit at Champaign Aviation Museum in Urbana.
Israeli forces killed at least 22 people and injured dozens more in southern Lebanon on Sunday, Lebanese officials said, in the deadliest day since Israel’s truce with Hezbollah took effect. In ...
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Trump's executive order halting DEI means the Air Force no longer teaches recruits about WWII's Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
The U.S. Air Force has removed training courses for service members that included historical videos of its storied Black Tuskegee Airmen and Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs — female World War II pilots.
The Tuskegee Airmen were founded in 1941 in Tuskegee, Alabama when the U.S. Army Air Corp began a program to train Black servicemembers as Air Corps Cadets.
Over the years, Churchill has been depicted many times on screen, with Gary Oldman’s Oscar-winning performance in Darkest Hour focusing on his early days as PM. Aside from the battle to defeat Hitler and Nazi Germany, another underdog part of Churchill’s life were his Wilderness Years.