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France honors soldiers who died in Afghanistan after Trump's false claim about NATO troops

A senior French government official said Monday the memory of the French soldiers who died in Afghanistan should not be ...

Dark dispatches from the city of light: An American in Paris profiled prewar evil from Hitler to a guillotined serial killer

Janet Flanner, a struggling novelist with an unconventional lifestyle, was one of countless Americans living in 1920s Paris, ...
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September 25th, 1915: France’s deadliest day in World War I

On September 25th, 1915, France launched its largest offensive of the war in Champagne and Artois, throwing over half a ...
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A U-Boat Killed 763 American Soldiers on Christmas Eve in 1944. The Army Kept It Secret for 50 Years

Howard woke up around midnight in a hospital in Cherbourg, France. He was among the lucky ones. On that Christmas Eve in 1944, a German U-boat torpedo killed 763 American soldiers just five miles from ...

A new book tells the stories of the Black World War II pilots who were lost in combat

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Cheryl W. Thompson about her book, "Forgotten Souls: The Search for the Lost Tuskegee Airmen," which chronicles Black World War II pilots who were lost in combat.

Pierre L'enfant designed the look of the U.S. capital but died in obscurity

Pierre L'Enfant designed the look of the nation's capital but died in obscurity.