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68 Years Later, WWII Airman's Body Found on South Pacific Island
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsNearly 68 years after a Massachusetts airman took off on a reconnaissance flight over the South Pacific during World War II, his remains have been found and are en route home to America for burial with full military honors. U.S. Army Air Force 2nd Lt. Martin Murray was piloting a B-24D Liberator plane that took off from an airfield on the island of New Guinea on Oct. 27, 1943, with 11 other crewmen aboard. He was flying a reconnaissance mission over shipping lanes in the Bismarck Sea, ahead of an attack on Japanese forces nearby. But the mission was scrapped midflight because of bad weather, ...
Does This House Look Like Adolf Hitler?
By not in system - AOL NewsLONDON -- An unassuming semi-detached house in Wales has become an unlikely Web star after Internet users decided that it looks a lot like Adolf Hitler's face. The Swansea home's tan-colored, four-window facade stared out from British tabloid newspapers Wednesday following heavy distribution on social networking sites. AP This house in Swansea, Wales, resembling the distinctive facial features of German World War II leader Adolf Hitler, has become an unlikely hit on the Internet. Its resemblance to the dictator's face is debatable. The lintel above its door vaguely echoes the ...
G-7 Countries Announce Joint Currency Intervention
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Finance officials from the Group of Seven major industrialized countries on Thursday agreed on a coordinated effort to weaken the Japanese yen, which has surged to record levels following last week's earthquake and tsunami. A super-strong yen could cripple Japanese exports, further worsen the economic impact of the disaster that killed thousands and triggered an unfolding nuclear crisis. The coordinated intervention in international currency markets would be the first by the G-7 countries since the fall of 2000, when the G-7 intervened in an effort to bolster the euro. ...
Mysterious Recipient of World War II-Era Letter Found Back East
By Susanna Baird - AOL NewsLast week we told a tale of two letters, World War II-era epistles that were lost in the mail for nearly seven decades. One letter, sent by a young Army lieutenant from California's Camp Roberts in 1943, arrived last month in Iowa at the home of the deceased writer's 85-year-old brother. The other letter, mailed from an unknown someone in Alabama in 1944, arrived at Camp Roberts last month, addressed to a Miss R.T. Fletcher at the Red Cross Station Hospital, long since closed. Camp Roberts Historical Museum This letter, mailed in 1944, arrived at Camp Roberts, Calif., last month. ...
99-Year-Old Recalls Risking Life for Holocaust Survivors [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL NewsThe "Today" show has previewed a documentary about a remarkable woman who told the world the harrowing story of a group of Holocaust survivors fleeing Europe. Jewish-American photojournalist Ruth Gruber was 36 and working for the New York Herald Tribune in 1947 when she was sent to document the plight of 4,500 refugees aboard the Exodus, which was bombed by British ships enforcing a blockade. The Jewish passengers on the Exodus -- all of whom had escaped death camps -- would have been sent back to Germany if not for Gruber's photos, which spread around the world. Visit msnbc.com for ...
Two World War II-Era Letters Arrive Decades Late
By Susanna Baird - AOL NewsMiss R.T. Fletcher, American Red Cross, Station Hospital, Camp Roberts, California An envelope thus addressed to a now-mysterious Miss Fletcher arrived at Camp Roberts last month, 67 years after an equally unknown correspondent dispatched it. The postmark reads Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 9, 1944. A small tear in the return-address corner reveals the contents -- a handwritten letter -- but dashes hopes of identifying the sender. The back flap is sealed with tape. Gary McMaster, curator of the Camp Roberts Historical Museum and current holder of the letter, has left the tape in place out of ...
Frank Buckles, Last American Veteran of WWI, Dies at 110
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsFrank Buckles, the last known surviving American veteran of World War I, a onetime Missouri farm boy who lied about his age to join the Army in 1917, has died at age 110. Buckles -- who also survived 3 1/2 years in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II -- died of natural causes at his home in Charles Town, W.Va., biographer and family spokesman David DeJonge told The Journal of Martinsburg, W.Va. The veteran celebrated his 110th birthday earlier this month, but his family said that his health had been deteriorating since late last year. He died Sunday. Getty Images / ...
Happy 100th Birthday to the 1911 .45 Pistol, Our Gun of Choice
By James Grady - Politics DailyThis year marks the 100th "birthday" of one of America's most successful and culturally impactive political tools: the 1911 .45 semi-automatic pistol. Yet this is not just a story about a gun. Though, of course, this story stars and starts with that gun. Or rather, our need for it that emerged when U.S. armed forces fought Muslim insurgents on Asian turf that most Americans have trouble finding on a map. As most of us remember -- especially fans of Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling -- from 1899-1913, the United States fought the Philippine-American War for control of those Pacific islands. In ...
Tuskegee Airman Alex Boudreaux Dies at 90
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsAlex Boudreaux, a member of the storied Tuskegee Airmen, the black Army pilots who fought both Nazi Germany and discrimination in the United States, has died at the age of 90. Boudreaux was one of the surviving Tuskegee Airmen who visited the White House in 2007 and received the Congressional Gold Medal in a nod to the unit's long-unrecognized service during World War II. He is also thought to be the country's first black civilian air-traffic controller. Members of his family told The Columbus Dispatch that Boudreaux died in his sleep Sunday in Columbus, Ohio. "Because of the road he ...
Feast Your Eyes on the World's Oldest Wedding Cake
By Buck Wolf - AOL NewsIn 1898, when this cake was baked, Orville and Wilbur Wright were running a bicycle store, reading about birds and thinking how cool it would be to build a flying machine. Guinness World Records calls this 113-year-old Victorian era confection the "World's Oldest Cake." Hitler's bombs caused a crack in the hardened outer shell, but tests reveal that the fruit cake is still moist in the middle. ...
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