World War II

World War II Cemetery Project
FILE - Eighty years after the liberation of the south of the Netherlands, Scott Taylor, right, Ton Hermes, center, and Maria Kleijnen stand next to the grave of Scott's grandfather Second Lt. Royce Taylor, a bombardier with the 527 Bomb Squadron, at the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, southern Netherlands, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Dallas

Project connects Americans to the Dutch people who honor their relatives at World War II cemetery

OCT. 14, 2025

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US WWII veteran Harold Terens, 100, left, and Jeanne Swerlin, 96, arrive to celebrate their wedding at the town hall of Carentan-les-Marais, in Normandy, northwestern France, on Saturday, June 8, 2024. Together, the collective age of the bride and groom was nearly 200. But Terens and his sweetheart Jeanne Swerlin proved that love is eternal as they tied the knot Saturday inland of the D-Day beaches in Normandy, France. (AP Photo/Jeremias Gonzalez)

D-Day

AP celebrates diverse veterans, a centenarian wedding in coverage of D-Day 80th anniversary

JUNE 14, 2024

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Members of the W.R.N.S. are playing an important part in the War. Among their various duties is that of dispatch riders six dispatch riders are on duty at the Admiralty Carrying dispatches from where to all parts. They work in various shifts and also carry out the maintenance of their motor-cycles and practically no repair to the machine in beyond them. Dispatch riders having their knowledge of the London area checked by a leading Wren, July 29, 1940. (AP Photo)

Women

AP highlights the oft-overlooked women of D-Day

JUNE 7, 2024

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Internment camps

Skeleton found in mountains leads to a family’s story of Japanese internment tragedy

MARCH 19, 2021

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Battle of Midway

Two all-formats exclusives on discovery of Japan’s sunken Midway warships

OCT. 25, 2019

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75th anniversary

Rich, compelling coverage of D-Day 75 years on, an all-formats collaboration across 2 continents

JUNE 7, 2019

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