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  • April 2008

    • Critics Agog Over South Pacific

      Time  |  Apr 4, 08 12:52 PM CDT

      Critics Agog Over South Pacific

      (Newser) - The first Broadway revival of South Pacific opened last night, and the critics agree: It's outstanding. "Its brilliance hasn’t faded," Richard Zoglin writes in Time , calling the new production of perhaps the best Rodgers and Hammerstein collaboration “surprisingly fresh, astringent, meaty and convention-defying." Writes Ben Brantley of the New York Times: "I’m darned if I can find one serious flaw." More »

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      World War II  • theater  • Broadway

  • March 2008

    • India to Help US Hunt Lost WWII Crews

      Military Times  |  Mar 20, 08 11:00 AM CDT

      India to Help US Hunt Lost WWII Crews

      (Newser) - US bomber crews that went missing in the Himalayas during World War II may be recovered after more than six decades, reports the Military Times . While experts have long identified potential crash sites, the US military has been unable to access the dangerous border region between India, China, and Burma. Now, India is close to allowing a US-led expedition in. More »

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      China  • India  • World War II  • missing person  • POW  • Himalayas  • MIA  • US Army Air Force

    • WWII Ship Found After 66 Years

      Sydney Morning Herald  |  Mar 17, 08 11:53 AM CDT

      WWII Ship Found After 66 Years

      (Newser) - A legendary Australian war ship sunk in the Indian Ocean by a German raider during World War II has been found nearly intact after 66 years, the Australian PM confirmed today. The HMAS Sydney sank after a 30-minute battle with the Kormoran in Australia's greatest tragedy at sea. The wreckage won't be disturbed, out of respect for the 645 Australian sailors who went down with the ship. More »

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      Germany  • Australia  • World War II  • history  • discovery  • Kevin Rudd  • Indian Ocean  • sailor  • shipwreck  • sonar

    • Merkel Holds Cabinet Meeting in Jerusalem

      Times (UK)  |  Mar 17, 08 6:18 AM CDT

      Merkel Holds Cabinet Meeting in Jerusalem

      (Newser) - When Angela Merkel holds her weekly cabinet meeting today, it will meet not in Berlin but in Jerusalem—a special gesture to mark the 60th anniversary of Israeli statehood. Only a few decades ago Israelis marched in protest when the country welcomed its first German ambassador, but now the chancellor will become the first foreign head of government ever to address the Knesset. The Times of London reports on the remarkable evolution of relations between the two nations. More »

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      Israel  • Germany  • Ehud Olmert  • Angela Merkel  • World War II  • Holocaust  • Knesset  • Third Reich  • Frank-Walter Steinmeier

    • WWII Mines Block Egypt's Access to Oil

      Der Spiegel  |  Mar 12, 08 6:27 PM CDT

      WWII Mines Block Egypt's Access to Oil

      (Newser) - Millions of land mines and unexploded artillery shells left over from World War II are hampering Egypt's efforts to get at a treasure trove of oil and gas beneath the desert, der Spiegel reports. The ordnance is an unwelcome reminder of the North African conflict between Brits and Erwin Rommel’s Nazi forces. More »

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      oil  • Egypt  • OPEC  • World War II  • natural gas  • natural resources  • land mines

    • Army Cadet Found After 66 Years

      San Francisco Chronicle  |  Mar 11, 08 12:55 PM CDT

      Army Cadet Found After 66 Years

      (Newser) - Sixty-six years after his disappearance, a full military funeral is planned for a cadet lost in a flight accident during World War II, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The Army has identified a recently discovered body as Aviation Cadet Ernest Munn of Ohio, who crashed with three other crewmen in an AT-7 Navigator flying over Kings Canyon National Park in 1942. More »

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      California  • Ohio  • soldier  • World War II  • accidental death  • MIA  • military funeral

    • Germany Torn Over Reviving Iron Cross

      Independent (UK)  |  Mar 7, 08 3:40 PM CST

      Germany Torn Over Reviving Iron Cross

      (Newser) - German officials are debating whether to bring back the Iron Cross, a military insignia closely associated with the Nazi era, the Independent reports. Some 5,000 Germans signed a petition last year calling for the reintroduction of the decoration for "outstanding bravery," which was eliminated in 1945. Others say it’s too mired in bad memories to be appropriate. More »

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      Germany  • Nazi  • World War II  • Adolf Hitler

    • Brits Used Astrologer Against Hitler

      Guardian (UK)  |  Mar 4, 08 9:10 AM CST

      Brits Used Astrologer Against Hitler

      (Newser) - Some British strategists saw the outcome of World War II written in the stars, according to newly declassified documents that reveal the role of an astrologer in predicting Adolf Hilter's moves. An intelligence agency employed a colorful character who claimed to be able to use astrological readings to, as one supporter put it, tell "when his aspects are bad," the Guardian reports. More »

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      Germany  • England  • World War II  • Adolf Hitler  • espionage  • MI5  • Astrology

    • Medal of Honor for Sioux Warrior

      CNN  |  Mar 4, 08 6:32 AM CST

      Medal of Honor for Sioux Warrior

      (Newser) - The first full-blooded Sioux to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor was awarded his medal 26 years after his death at a moving ceremony at the White House yesterday, reports CNN. President Bush presented the medal to family members of Army Master Sgt. Woodrow "Woody" Keeble, whose courage in World War II and Korea already earned him two Purple Hearts and a Silver and Bronze Star. More »

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      US Army  • World War II  • Korean War  • Native Americans  • heroism  • Medal of Honor  • Silver Star  • Purple Heart  • courage

  • February 2008

    • Germans Find Hidden Nazi Gold

      Der Spiegel  |  Feb 20, 08 7:44 AM CST

      Germans Find Hidden Nazi Gold

      (Newser) - Treasure hunters in Germany have announced they've found a secret stash of Nazi gold in an underground cavern and they believe it could be from the looted Amber Room of the Russian czars, Der Speigel reports. Instruments have detected what could be 2 tons of gold in the cavern near a town on the Czech border. The site was pinpointed using coordinates found among the belongings of a former Luftwaffe staffer who died recently. More »

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      Russia  • Germany  • Nazi  • World War II  • history  • discovery  • gold  • treasure  • Amber Room  • Luftwaffe  • czar

    • Turks Find Hitler's 'Lost Fleet'

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Feb 4, 08 2:25 PM CST

      Turks Find Hitler's 'Lost Fleet'

      (Newser) - Three World War II U-boats, known as "Hitler's lost fleet," have been discovered off the Turkish coast, the Telegraph reports. A Turkish team combined archival research with sailor interviews and sonar technology to find the wreckage, part of the six-boat fleet that dogged Russian ships in the Black Sea under notorious commander "Silent Otto" Kretschmer. More »

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      Germany  • Nazi  • World War II  • history  • Adolf Hitler  • discovery  • sailor  • submarine  • Black Sea  • sonar  • Romania

    • Death Photo of Famous War Correspondent Surfaces

      Associated Press  |  Feb 4, 08 3:35 AM CST

      Death Photo of Famous War Correspondent Surfaces

      (Newser) - He was a celebrated World War II correspondent who became a household name and earned a Pulitzer Prize for his stories about hometown soldiers. But the photo that captured Ernie Pyle’s death on the battlefield only turned up recently, surprising historians, AP reports. The never-before-published photo shows Pyle lying on the ground after being shot by the Japanese in 1945.  More »

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      World War II  • photography  • correspondent  • Newseum

  • December 2007