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The Eighty Years’ War: Every Day with Units on Google Earth

This video brings the Eighty Years’ War to life using Google Earth, mapping the conflict day by day with unit movements across the Low Countries. We follow the struggle between the Dutch rebels and ...
United States Army

80 YEARS LATER: Recalling end of World War II at Camp McCoy

On Sept. 2, 1945, the official end of World War II came to pass with Japan’s signing of the Instrument of Surrender aboard ...
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Germany, Europe mark 80 years since end of World War II

Ceremonies to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II are being held across the continent. The newly elected German Chancellor Freidrich Merz will join a wreath-laying ceremony in Berlin.
Townhall

Eighty Years Ago, Truman Did the Right Thing

One humid Japanese summer day. One bomb. 8:15 am. 135,000 casualties. 66,000 dead (including 38,000 children). 69,000 injured. Three days after, World War II ended. Eighty years later, we commemorate ...
The Columbian

80 years ago World War II in Europe was over. Celebrating V-E Day is now tinged with some dread

LONDON (AP) — Even if the end of World War II in Europe spawned one of the most joyous days the continent ever lived, Thursday’s 80th anniversary of V-E Day is haunted as much by the specter of ...
UVA Today

For 80 years, nuclear weapons have been the unused threat

In the 80 years since World War II, which ended with the use of two atomic bombs, the world has maintained a tenuous relationship with nuclear weapons. Philip Potter, professor of public policy at the ...
Time

80 Years Later, Both Trump and Putin Brand WWII a Victory

President Donald Trump delivers remarks in the Oval Office of the White House on May 05, 2025 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump delivers remarks in the Oval Office of the White House on May 05 ...
Stars and Stripes

WWII veterans honored at ceremony marking 80 years since V-E Day

WASHINGTON — Marking 80 years since the end of World War II in Europe, dozens gathered Thursday at the National World War II Memorial to commemorate Victory in Europe Day with a solemn ceremony ...
New Hampshire Union Leader

Eighty years after WWII’s end, the consensus it forged is crumbling

When a U.S.-led armada sailed into Tokyo Bay 80 years ago to accept the Japanese surrender in World War II, it was just 27 days after an atomic bomb killed some 70,000 people in a single blow at ...
CounterPunch

Eighty Years of Talking Peace and Preparing for Nuclear War

On August 6, 2025, the world marked the 80th anniversary of the American destruction of Hiroshima. As in decades past, Hiroshima Day served to honor the first victims of atomic warfare and to reaffirm ...
The Real News Network

80 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, are we on the verge of another nuclear war?

This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Aug. 06, 2025. It is shared here with permission. Eighty years ago, the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on the civilian populations of Hiroshima and ...