PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii - NOAA researchers recently made an unlikely discovery while exploring the wreckage of the USS Nevada. The Nevada survived the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, but years later after ...
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Rare personal WWII relics surfaced beneath a forgotten German camp

Beneath a silent forest floor, we uncovered objects that once belonged to real soldiers. In an abandoned German army camp on ...
Metal Detecting WWII Battlegrounds on MSN

Relics of a lost WWII barracks reveal life on the Eastern Front

Deep in the remains of an abandoned camp, objects from daily soldier life came back into the light. Early finds included a ...
Every now and then, the Gulf currents deliver something to our beaches that feels like it belongs in a museum rather than on the sand. This week, it was a rubber bale — an unusual find that looks like ...
WASHINGTON (AP) - Italy's ambassador to the United States is joining the family of a World War II Italian Air Force officer to donate flight suits and objects to the Smithsonian's National Air and ...
Top collectors on the island have amassed hundreds of thousands of artifacts — and there are still more being found. Stelios Tripalitakis holds an original rifle used during the Battle of Crete, part ...
A pair searching the forest near Zielone found the hidden banner, pennant and ribbons of a regiment defeated in WWII, officials said. Photo from M. Podgórski via Lublin Voivodeship Conservator of ...
Editor’s note: This article was originally published April 10, 1958. WASHINGTON — A C-119 cargo plane took off from here Wednesday groaning under the weight of an 11,000-pound war relic bound for a ...