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Claude Stanley Choules, the last known combat veteran from World War I, died this week at a nursing home in the Australia city of Perth at 110 years old. Born in Britain, Choules — nicknamed “Chuckles” by his shipmates in the Australian Navy — had a 41-year military career that began with training with the British Royal Navy, just one month after he turned 14. In 1917, he served on the battleship HMS Revenge, where he witnessed the 1918 surrender of the German High Seas Fleet, the main... Read Full Story

The death of Osama Bin Laden provides an interesting time to look into how U.S. newspapers covered the event. Here are screenshots of the websites of 20 major U.S. papers from May 2, 2011 - the morning after President Obama announced the news about the American operation that killed the terrorist leader. Albany Times-Union Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Austin American-Statesman Baltimore Sun Chicago Sun-Times Chicago Tribune Dallas Morning News Los Angeles... Read Full Story

The Guadalcanal Campaign was fought between August 7, 1942 and February 9, 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theatre of World War II. It was the second major offensive by Allied forces against the Japanese. On August 7, 1942, Allied forces landed on the islands of Guadalcanal, Tulagi, and Florida in the southern Solomon Islands with the objective of denying their use by the Japanese to threaten the trade and communication routes between the U.S., Australia, and New... Read Full Story

The Doolittle Raid, held on April 18th, 1942, was the first air raid by the United States to attack the Japanese islands during World War II. The raid was important because by illustrating that Japan was vulnerable to American air attack, it provided a morale boost and opportunity for U.S. retaliation after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor five months prior. The raid was conducted under the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel James “Jimmy” Doolittle. Doolittle would later recount in his... Read Full Story

The Siege of Budapest centered on the Hungarian capital city of Budapest. It was fought towards the end of World War II in Europe, during the Soviet Budapest Offensive. The siege started when Budapest, defended by Hungarian and German troops, was first encircled on 29 December 1944 by the Red Army and the Romanian Army. The siege ended when the city unconditionally surrendered on 13 February 1945. The besieging Soviet forces were part of Rodion Malinovsky’s 2nd Ukrainian Front. Formations... Read Full Story

Geraldine Hoff Doyle of Lansing Michigan, the woman behind the iconic Rosie the Riveter poster during WWII, has died at 86, according to the Lansing State Journal. Doyle was a 17-year-old factory worker at a metal-pressing plant in Ann Arbor when she was captured by a United Press International photographer. Her photograph was the basis for the popular propaganda poster that was created to encourage women to enter the workforce to support the war effort on the home front. More than 6... Read Full Story

Twenty years ago today, the Berlin Wall that divided Germany into East and West began to fall. Above, a group of East German soldiers peer into West Germany through a section of the Berlin Wall that has been pulled open twenty years ago today. More photos at the Cold War Museum Read Full Story

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Brave Palestinian girl confronts an Israeli soldier during the Israel/Palestine conflict of January, 2008. Read Full Story

Newspapers and other news organizations across the world have were duped yesterday by an image provided by the Web site of Sepah News, the PR organization for the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.  The image of a missile launch test that Sepah provided was photoshopped to show four rockets in the air, not the three that were actually launched.  Many major media outlets, including the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and Chicago Tribute placed the false image on their front pages. Below are... Read Full Story