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Intramuros opens dungeons of Fort Santiago to visitors

George Cavelo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 20 03:42 PM

People visit the newly opened dungeons inside the Fort Santiago in Intramuros, Manila on Wednesday.  Read more »

California to apologize for WWII internment of Japanese

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 19 11:45 AM

More than 120,000 Japanese-Americans were sent to 10 concentration camps throughout western states and Arkansas during World War II after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order.   Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: February 13, 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 13 11:24 PM

Here are the big stories today in photos Read more »

Archeologists rediscover WWII hero's memorial marker

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 13 05:03 PM

Archeologist Nikki Vesagas brushes the recently rediscovered memorial marker of Maria Orosa during the 75th anniversary commemoration of the bombing of Remedios Hospital on Thursday at the Malate Catholic School compound in Manila Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: February 3, 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 03 11:20 PM

Here are the day's big stories in photos. Read more »

Commemorating the Battle for Manila

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 03 09:56 PM

Color guards march with the flag of the Philippines and Manila as the city commemorates the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Manila and its eventual liberation from Japanese forces during World War II. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: January 27, 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 28 12:02 AM

Here are the day's big stories in photos. Read more »

Remembering the liberation of Auschwitz

Aleksandra Szmigiel, Reuters
Posted at Jan 27 10:04 PM

A woman pays her respects after a wreath-laying ceremony at the "death wall" at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz in Osweiecim, Poland on Monday. Read more »

How the Nazis carried out their 'Final Solution'

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 14 12:28 PM

PARIS, France - The World War II extermination of Jews by Nazi Germany began after the invasion of Poland in 1939 and increased in scale with the creation of death camps. Read more »

How the world discovered the Nazi death camps

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 14 11:32 AM

PARIS, France - Images of what the Allies found when they liberated the first Nazi death camps towards the end of World War II brought the horror of the Holocaust to world attention.   Read more »

Family behind Krispy Kreme gives millions to Holocaust survivors

Jacey Fortin, The New York Times
Posted at Dec 13 04:06 PM

The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, which seeks reparations for Holocaust survivors and funds social services, announced the donation Thursday. Read more »

Private endeavors in Philippines keep WWII memories alive, relevant

Ronron Calunsod, Kyodo News
Posted at Dec 09 02:10 PM

MANILA - As time marches on from when World War II ravaged nations and claimed millions of lives in the Pacific more than seven decades ago, the relevance of wartime memories and other memorabilia keeps growing in the Philippines.   Read more »

Abe's mission unaccomplished: pushing to revise Japan's pacifist charter

Linda Sieg, Reuters
Posted at Nov 13 12:31 PM

Shinzo Abe surged back to power 7 years ago, pledging to bolster Japan's defenses in response to a growing threat from China and aiming to amend the pacifist constitution. He has kept his first promise. The second remains elusive. Read more »

Darren Criss bibida sa pelikula tungkol sa World War 2

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 04 08:10 PM

Bibida ang Filipino-American actor na si Darren Criss sa pelikulang "Midway," na tungkol sa World War 2. Read more »

Movie review: Do we really need another film about the Battle of Midway?

Fred Hawson
Posted at Oct 29 05:02 PM

"Midway" is a straightforward retelling of the events in the first months of the War in the Pacific beginning with Pearl Harbor and culminating in the Battle of Midway.  Read more »

Japanese World War II carriers found in Pacific depths

Christine Hauser, The New York Times
Posted at Oct 22 09:15 AM

In the past few days, deep sea explorers aboard the Petrel, a 250-foot research vessel that explores historically significant shipwrecks, announced they have located the wreckage of the Japanese carriers Kaga and Akagi, two among the six-carrier fleet used by Japanese aircraft to attack Pearl Harbor in 1941. Read more »

"I shall return!"

Jonathan Cellona, ABS_CBN News
Posted at Oct 20 07:53 PM

David Henry Mattiske, an Australian navy sailor during World War II, pays tribute to the statues in Palo, Leyte commemorating the return of General Douglas MacArthur to the Philippines during the war. Read more »

At least 7 dead as World War II plane crashes in US: reports

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 03 12:03 PM

At least seven people were killed when a World War II bomber carrying 13 passengers and crew crashed at an airport in the northeastern US state of Connecticut Wednesday, local media reported. Read more »

Vintage B-17 bomber makes fiery fatal landing in Connecticut

Peter Szekely, Reuters
Posted at Oct 03 06:27 AM

A World War Two-era B-17 bomber trying to make an emergency landing at an airport near Hartford, Connecticut, crashed and burned, killing an undetermined number of people and closing the airport for several hours, authorities said.   Read more »

OPINION: The liberation of the Philippines, the steep price of freedom

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Sep 28 05:41 AM

The “Battle of the Philippines,” the liberation of the Philippines from Japanese occupation during World War II, was effectively and dramatically implemented at dawn of Oct. 20, 1944. Read more »