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[Video] Divers have found a plane wreck off the coast of southern Sweden believed to be the remains of an American B17 bomber that crashed into the sea in 1944 with the loss of nine airmen. Gavino Garay reports.

On April 22, 1945, a group of surviving inmates broke out of Nazi Croatia’s main death camp, Jasenovac. Just fifty years later, their memories – and the grisly history of Jasenovac – had become prey to politics, propaganda, and historical revisionism more concerned with the 1990s Yugoslav wars than with the truth about “Independent Croatia” and its factory of death. South Gate of Jasenovac III “Brickworks” camp; (via Donja Gradina Memorial Association) On April 10, 1941, four days after armies of the German Reich and their allies attacked the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Croat nationalists (Ustasha) allied with Hitler and Mussolini...

Astonishing drawings of British soldiers in brutal Japanese Prisoner of War camps have turned up nearly 70 years later on TV's Antiques Roadshow. The lost sketches showing the appalling conditions the men endured were drawn by artist soldier John Mennie who gave them to fellow PoW Eric Jennings. Mr Jennings never spoke about his wartime experiences and his family were stunned when they found the sketches stashed away in a shoe box after his death.

Simon Wiesenthal Center's Tenth Annual Report on the Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals Wiesenthal Center Annual Report Points to Lack of Political Will and Holocaust Distortion as Major Obstacles to Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals; Praises Hungary for Indictment of Dr. Sandor Kepiro; Three New Names on Center’s “Most Wanted” List Jerusalem - The Simon Wiesenthal Center today released the initial findings of its tenth Annual Status Report on the Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals, which covers the period from April 1, 2010 until March 31, 2011 and awarded grades ranging from A (highest) to...

Yes, I am enthusiastically recommending an article in today's NY Times. Of course, it was written during WW II. On its website today, the Times has a never-published 15,000 word story, written by their correspondent at Pearl Harbor, about the amazing efforts that were made to repair the Pacific fleet after the Japanese attack. There's also some really wonderful archival photos, and other links. Well worth reading now, or bookmarking for later on. Just clink the link above

KFI news in Los Angeles just reported that war protestors have vandalized the George S. Patton Museum in the high desert of California. The Museum director was interviewed and said that slogans like "Alah is Great" were spray painted on tanks, and otehr museum pieces as well as other damage done in a clear attack to protest the war in Iraq.

It happend 11/19/1942.