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  Paul Tibbets: The airman who piloted the USAF flight that dropped N-bomb on Hiroshima 80 years ago

  World | August 06, 2025 7:12 IST

  Paul Tibbets was flying his B-29 Superfortress, which he had named Enola Gay after his mother. As part of his mission, Tibbets would go on to drop a nuclear bomb - 'Little Boy' - on the Japanese city of Hiroshima during World War II.

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  Researcher hunts for Hiroshima's missing on Ninoshima island 8 decades after atomic bombing

  World | August 04, 2025 8:19 IST

  Rebun Kayo, a Hiroshima University researcher, has been regularly visiting the island in search of the remains of people. He recently visited a hilltop point, where he has been excavating since 2018 in search of remains.

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  PM Modi to visit Mazargues War Cemetery: Historical significance and India's connection

  World | February 12, 2025 14:18 IST

  The Mazargues War Cemetery holds historical significance for India, as served as the base of the Indian troops in France during the First World War (1914-18). PM Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron will pay homage to Indian soldiers at the Mazargues War Cemetery later today.

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  Nagasaki Day 2024: 79 years of atomic bombing; All you need to know about history and significance

  World | August 09, 2024 18:07 IST

  Nagasaki Day is celebrated on August 9 every year to mark the anniversary of the devastating nuclear attack by the US on the Japanese city during World War II, killing over 70,000 people. Friday's ceremony in Nagasaki was marked with the absence of Western envoys due to Israel's exclusion.

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  Love not lost! 100-year-old WWII veteran marries 96-year-old fiancee near Normandy's D-Day beaches

  World | June 08, 2024 17:51 IST

  Harold Terens, 100, and Jeanne Swerlin, 96, are both widows from earlier marriages and started dating in 2021. Terens was honoured during the D-Day commemorations in Normandy, France, having enlisted in the US Army in 1942 and repairing planes during the Allied invasion in France on June 6, 1944.

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  WATCH: Parachutists jump from WWII-era planes in Normandy to commemorate 80th anniversary of D-Day

  World | June 03, 2024 9:23 IST

  Thousands of soldiers from the US, Britain, Canada and other Allied countries took part in landing operations at Normandy on June 6, 1944, for the liberation of France from Nazi Germany. Veterans in their nineties are now returning to Normandy to honour their fallen comrades.

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  Biden claims cannibals ate his war veteran uncle after being shot down during WWII. Is it true?

  World | April 18, 2024 11:04 IST

  Irrespective of Biden's claim, the evidence claimed that his uncle, died on May 14, 1944, while a passenger on an Army Air Forces plane that, “for unknown reasons,” was forced to ditch in the Pacific Ocean off the northern coast of New Guinea.

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  Why does Adidas announce redesigning Soccer-Number four on Germany jerseys? Details inside

  World | April 03, 2024 12:28 IST

  The design for the number four on Germany's national team shirts will be changed over concerns that the number '44' resembled the symbol used by Nazi 'SS' units, the German Football Association (DFB) said after a major controversy broke out on social media platforms.

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  WWII-era bomb safely detonated at sea after one of the largest peacetime evacuations in UK history

  World | February 24, 2024 18:42 IST

  More than 10,000 residents were evacuated to ensure their safety as a military convoy transported the unexploded bomb through a densely populated residential area to a ferry slipway, from which it was taken out to sea.

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  'Deeply embarrassing': Trudeau after criticism for inviting Ukrainian veteran who fought for Nazis

  World | September 26, 2023 10:49 IST

  The Canadian Prime Minister further warned that that the event may fuel Russian propaganda, as Vladimir Putin has alleged "neo-Nazi" elements operating within Ukraine.

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  Germany: World War II-era bomb dug up in Dusseldorf, over 13,000 residents evacuated to safety

  World | August 08, 2023 14:56 IST

  Notably, it is not the first time an unexploded WWII-era bomb has been dug up in a large German city.

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  Italy unveils memorial to honour Indian troops who fought World War II

  World | July 23, 2023 12:34 IST

  The memorial is also dedicated to soldier Yeshwant Ghadge, who was killed during the war in Upper Tiber Valley during the Second World War.

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  Remains of WWII-era planes, sent to Soviet Union against Nazi Germany, discovered in Ukraine

  World | July 02, 2023 23:36 IST

  The Hawker Hurricane fighters played a crucial role in defeating the attempts of Nazi Germany to invade the United Kingdom, shooting down over half of the enemy aircraft in the Battle of Britain, in a campaign led by the Royal Air Force (RAF).

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  Germany: 102-year-old convicted Nazi concentration camp guard Josef S dies awaiting appeal

  World | April 27, 2023 8:00 IST

  Germany: 102-year-old convicted Nazi concentration camp guard, whom local media have identified only as Josef S in line with German privacy rules, was sentenced to five years in prison last June but remained free pending appeal.

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  World War II era Japenese ship sunk with 1,080 Allied prisoner of war found in South China Sea

  World | April 23, 2023 12:11 IST

  The Montevideo Maru was transporting prisoners and civilians who were captured after the fall of Rabaul in Papua New Guinea.

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  International Holocaust Remembrance Day: How Jewish leaders save 10k fellow Jews from gas chambers

  World | January 27, 2023 17:29 IST

  As the world marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Friday, historians, activists, survivors and their families are all preparing for the time when there will no longer be living witnesses to share first-person accounts of the horrors of the Nazi genocide during World War II.

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  World War II vintage bomb detonated in Manipur

  India | September 18, 2022 8:19 IST

  Defence spokesman Lt Col A.S. Walia said that the bomb was recovered by locals during digging work in Kamjong district, bordering Myanmar.

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  5,000 kg bomb dropped by Britain during WW2 explodes in Poland | Watch video

  World | October 14, 2020 14:49 IST

  A British World War II bomb exploded while being made safe underwater by navy demolition specialists in northwestern Poland on Tuesday.

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  World War 2 era bomb explodes in Nagaland, 1 dead, 4 injured

  India | September 08, 2020 20:17 IST

  A suspected World War II-era bomb exploded in Nagaland's Dimapur district on Tuesday killing a metal scrap collector, while four others were injured, police said.

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  75 years later, 1 million Japanese war dead still missing

  World | August 13, 2020 17:15 IST

  Seventy-five years after the end of World War II, more than 1 million Japanese war dead are scattered throughout Asia, where the legacy of Japanese aggression still hampers recovery efforts.