A nurse who was photographed being kissed in Times Square in New York to celebrate the end of the second world war in 1945 has died, aged 91.
The iconic VJ Day picture of Edith Shain by Alfred Eisenstaedt was published in Life magazine.
The identity of the nurse in the photograph was not known until the late 1970s when Shain wrote to Eisenstaedt to say that she was the woman in the picture. It was taken on 14 August 1945 when she had been working at Doctor’s Hospital in New York.
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Three people have been killed and six injured trying to defuse a World War II bomb in central Germany.
Workers building a sports stadium had earlier unearthed the bomb in the town of Goettingen.
It was not immediately clear why the bomb, reportedly weighing 500kg (1,100lb), had detonated.
Unexploded WWII bombs dropped by Allied planes are frequently found in Germany, though it is unusual for them to explode unexpectedly.
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The state is moving ahead with repairs on the World War II Memorial at the Capitol in Olympia, despite the artist’s attempt to stop the work.
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Scupltor says WWII memorial improperly maintained
OLYMPIA, Wash. — The decade-old World War II memorial on the Capitol Campus is one of the most personal works of Olympia artist Simon Kogan.
Kogan, a Russian immigrant of Jewish descent who lost relatives during the war, has received thank-you notes from veterans moved by the memorial. As he explains it, these veterans entrusted him to encapsulate the toil and sacrifice of their war experience for future generations.
Kogan, 50, said it’s this allegiance that drives his nearly 2-year-old dispute with the state Department of General Administration, which maintains all the memorials on the Capitol Campus.
He says that overaggressive cleaning in May 2007 damaged the memorial and robbed it of its most powerful feature. He has demanded that the state agency fix the damage or he will sue.
“I’m ashamed,” he said. “They paid me to do that. To me, it’s a personal responsibility which I’m not keeping up with.”
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War of the poison dart
How Britain planned to rain death on the Nazis with sewing machine needles
The concept sounds almost medieval in its crude simplicity.
A war strategy to shower enemy troops with tens of thousands of poisoned darts made from sewing machine needles that could bring death in minutes.
Incredibly, it was a plan considered by Britain at the height of the Second World War.
Details, revealed today in secret documents released by the National Archives, outline the gruesome physical effects of such an attack on Nazi troops.
The papers also show how the Government tried to rope the Singer Sewing Machine Company into supplying the needles.
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“The world depended on them. They depended on each other.”
That was the tagline for “Band of Brothers” – an award-winning 2001 HBO mini-series drama on the World War II experiences of Easy Company, a U.S. Army unit that fought bravely and fiercely across Europe.
But for Bristol’s Margo Johnson – daughter of Darrell “Shifty” Powers, one of the soldiers depicted in “Band of Brothers” – two more lines could be added to describe her heroic father: “The world truly admired Darrell Powers. I absolutely adored him.”
“I loved everything about my daddy,” Johnson said. “He never bragged about what he did in the war. And for a lot of years, he never even talked much about what he did – unless someone asked him about it.
“But he truly was a hero to me,” Johnson said. “Just like he’d been to the people who know him as a soldier in a [mini-series].”
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MILLVILLE – A World War II torpedo bomber caught fire over the city Saturday and made an emergency landing at Millville Airport.
The pilot, identified by State Police in Port Norris as Terry Rush, of Cherry Hill, Camden County, suffered second- and third-degree burns in the fire but landed the single-propeller plane safely on one of the airport’s runways.
The fire was reported at 4:40 p.m. to the Millville Fire Department. The fire engulfed and destroyed the plane once it landed, said James Salmon, a spokesman for the Delaware River and Bay Authority, which owns the airport.
Rush was taken by medical helicopter to a burn center at Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland, Pa., fire Capt. Mike Lippincott said.
The pilot was the only person aboard the three-seat plane. Nobody on the ground was injured, Lippincott said…
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