In an astounding confrontation that took place yesterday at the World War II Memorial in DC, a Tea Party congressman from Texas appeared to blame the Park Service for denying veterans access to the facility ā and then made a Park Ranger apologize for the shutdown. "How do you look at them and ... deny them access?" ā¦
Because sometimes life is every bit as exciting and riddled with mysteries as you had hoped it would be as a cunning, hopeful child, a man in southern England has discovered the remains of a homing pigeon carrying an encrypted message for a British intelligence agency while renovating his 17th-century fireplace. Theā¦
Adolf Hitler may have fathered a son by a French teenager while serving as a soldier in World War I, according to a recent issue of France's Le Point magazine.
German fashion label Hugo Boss issued a formal apology for that little blip on its resume ā the one about them outfitting millions of Nazi soldiers. The acknowledgement comes on the clicked heels of a new book about the company, commissioned by Hugo Boss themselves in order to shed some light on the era.
Not since we learned of the Nazis' failed attempts to create a canine Ć¼berbreed capable of reading, writing and solving complex math equations has a tale of WWII crackpot science been so utterly delightful (if suspect): The Daily Mail has a story of a British plan to "lace Adolf Hitler's food with female sex hormonesā¦
French authorities evacuated 6,000 Parisians on Sunday while defusing a 1,000-pound bomb from a 1942 World War II raid. The bomb had actually been found in "late January," but, hey, it's France, so they took their time.
Dick Winters's exploits during the invasion of Normandy (and other battles) were depicted in HBO's sweeping 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers, about airborne division Easy Company's WWII campaign. He passed away in Pennsylvania January 2nd, at the age of 92.
And they're bringing two older men with them. Also today: 3D war movies are the most reverential of 3D movies, some funny Emmys reporting, and that SNL news that's been all over.
First, director Spike Lee criticized Clint Eastwood over the absence of black soldiers in his WWII epic Flags of Our Fathers. Next, Eastwood pointed out that the flick is about the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima, which was done by white soldiers, adding that "A guy like him should shut his face." But Leeā¦
