/tags/wwii WWII en-US Copyright Wed, 08 Mar 2017 09:00:00 GMT /history/2017-03-08/local-veteran-former-pow-robert-doolan-turns-100-this-month-and-shares-his-wwii-stories Robert Doolan was born in Cincinnati on the eve of the Unites States' entry into World War I, enlisted in the Army Air Corps in January 1941 and served as… Wed, 08 Mar 2017 09:00:00 GMT /history/2017-03-08/local-veteran-former-pow-robert-doolan-turns-100-this-month-and-shares-his-wwii-stories /history/2016-12-07/remembering-the-attack-on-pearl-harbor-75-years-later Seventy-five years ago today, Japanese forces attacked the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. President Franklin Roosevelt declared it ?a date which… Wed, 07 Dec 2016 09:00:00 GMT /history/2016-12-07/remembering-the-attack-on-pearl-harbor-75-years-later /community/2016-08-24/from-citizen-to-enemy-presents-historical-context-to-fear-mongering-in-the-us From Citizen to Enemy, a program presented by the Cincinnati chapters of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) and Council on American-Islamic… Wed, 24 Aug 2016 08:00:05 GMT /community/2016-08-24/from-citizen-to-enemy-presents-historical-context-to-fear-mongering-in-the-us /books/2015-09-25/author-kristin-hannah-talks-about-her-latest-novel-the-nightingale Kristin Hannah is the bestselling author of more than 20 books and she joins our Kelly Blewett on the phone to talk about her latest, The Nightingale, a… Fri, 25 Sep 2015 09:00:05 GMT /books/2015-09-25/author-kristin-hannah-talks-about-her-latest-novel-the-nightingale Kelly Blewett /specials/2015-05-25/memorial-day-special-mine-enemy-the-story-of-german-pows-in-america Mine Enemy: The Story of German POWs in AmericaDuring World War II, some 400,000 captured German soldiers were shipped across the Atlantic to prison camps… Mon, 25 May 2015 10:30:00 GMT /specials/2015-05-25/memorial-day-special-mine-enemy-the-story-of-german-pows-in-america 91. WVXU /history/2014-12-08/cincinnati-and-wwii Sunday marked the 73rd anniversary of the attack on Peal Harbor, which brought America into World War II. University of Cincinnati Associate Professor of… Mon, 08 Dec 2014 11:30:00 GMT /history/2014-12-08/cincinnati-and-wwii /community/2014-11-07/ponder-anew-helps-our-active-military-veterans-and-families-and-is-coming-to-cincinnati During World War II, Army Air Corps fighter pilot Lieutenant Herschel Ponder flew 51 missions over Europe. Forty-five years later he wrote about his… Fri, 07 Nov 2014 06:30:00 GMT /community/2014-11-07/ponder-anew-helps-our-active-military-veterans-and-families-and-is-coming-to-cincinnati /history/2014-06-06/d-day-70-years-later “Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many… Fri, 06 Jun 2014 09:00:05 GMT /history/2014-06-06/d-day-70-years-later /books/2014-05-09/author-denise-kiernan-tells-a-little-known-story-from-wwii The Girls of Atomic City is a fascinating fact-based novel about the women who unknowingly built the atomic bomb while working in the small town of Oak… Fri, 09 May 2014 05:00:10 GMT /books/2014-05-09/author-denise-kiernan-tells-a-little-known-story-from-wwii /history/2014-02-06/wwii-radio-shaped-news-coverage Today, thanks to the internet, smart phones, satellite communications and 24-hour cable television we have all come to expect almost instant access to… Thu, 06 Feb 2014 11:30:00 GMT /history/2014-02-06/wwii-radio-shaped-news-coverage Howard Wilkinson