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Unpacking claim USS Doris Miller will be renamed after Trump instead of Black WWII hero

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Joey Esposito
Aug. 21, 2026 A CNN report described the Trump administration's intentions to retitle a Navy vessel previously ...
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A fake image shows U.S. President Donald Trump between General George Patton and General Douglas MacArthur.

Did Trump post AI image of himself with Generals Patton and MacArthur?

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Laerke Christensen
Aug. 5, 2026 Some people online accused the president, who has never served in the U.S. military, of stolen v ...
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Close-up photo of an old white woman wearing glasses and short white hair slicked behind

Jeanne Gibson, one of many Rosie the Riveters, died at 100

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Emery Winter
Aug. 3, 2026 Jeanne Gibson was one of many "Rosies" and a passionate advocate for the other women who bore th ...
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WWII veteran and Pima Indian Ira Hayes pointing at Joe Rosenthal's famous photo of Hayes and five other service members raising the U.S. flag at Iwo Jima.

Claim DOD removed page about Native American Iwo Jima veteran Ira Hayes omits key context

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Caroline Wazer
July 20, 2026 The removal followed an order from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to take down DOD web pages "pr ...
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, northwestern France, on June 6, 2026.

Did residents of French village ask Hegseth to skip D-Day ceremony?

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Laerke Christensen
June 8, 2026 It's unclear why the defense secretary didn't attend the ceremony in Langrune-sur-Mer.
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This image shows Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota speaking at a press conference in January 2025.

Video shows Ilhan Omar misreading 'World War II' as 'World War 11.' Here's the full story

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Taija PerryCook
April 29, 2026 A 2025 verbal gaffe Omar made resurfaced in April 2026. Many posts sharing the footage omitted k ...
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AI-generated, black-and-white image of several shirtless boys sitting on a wooden bench in front of a wooden building with several windows. There is mud on the ground and they look underfed. Their hair is cut short, but not shaved.

Image of shirtless boys at Buchenwald concentration camp isn't real. We have proof

Written by:
Emery Winter
April 24, 2026 Many real photos of the child prisoners who survived Buchenwald exist. This isn't one of them, a ...
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A pair of black-and-white AI-generated images of a nun feeding Nazis soup, overlaid atop a sepia image of the same. The B&W images are a vertical pair. The bottom black and white image curiously includes Hitler himself at the table with the bowl of soup next to him.

Story about Canadian WWII nun poisoning Nazis with soup can be laid to rest

Written by:
Emery Winter
Feb. 26, 2026 We found numerous signs the rumor was AI-generated.
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Why women in Allied countries wore red lipstick to protest Hitler during WWII

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Anna Rascouët-Paz
Feb. 2, 2026 Historical evidence shows the Nazi ideal of femininity was clean faces.
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Two plaques state information about Black service members during WWII. The one on the left is more general, while the one on the right is specifically about George H. Pruitt.

Did Trump admin remove panels honoring fallen Black US soldiers in the Netherlands? What we know

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Laerke Christensen
Nov. 11, 2025 The widow of a soldier whose story was featured in one of the panels said it was never meant to ...
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Did Hitler build a ballroom after coming into power?

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Joey Esposito
Nov. 9, 2025 The leader of the Nazi Party built a ballroom in the garden of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, ...
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Unraveling claim Adolf Hitler built a ballroom in 1933

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Joey Esposito
Oct. 28, 2025 The fascist dictator built a ballroom in the garden of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin — beneath ...
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Did Trump call WWII nurse Ruby Bradley a 'loser' as DOD removed content about her? Here's the truth

Written by:
Taija PerryCook
Oct. 12, 2025 There is no record of Trump making such a comment and the DOD confirmed it is "not taking down c ...
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Unpacking claim Trump said 'Hitler did some good things'

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Nur Ibrahim
Oct. 2, 2025 Trump's former chief of staff shared the alleged quote with a CNN correspondent. His spokesperso ...
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Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels banned comedians for joking about Nazi Party

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Jordan Liles
Sept. 27, 2025 Online users reposted the newspaper article from Feb. 4, 1939, following ABC's initial September ...
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US VP JD Vance speaking with his hands spread in front of him

Vance claimed every major conflict has ended with negotiations. That's not true

Written by:
Emery Winter
Aug. 28, 2025 Plenty of wars in human history have ended otherwise, despite the U.S. vice president's claim.
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A white man wearing a dark blue suit sits while pointing with his right hand to the left.

Trump didn't say Japanese 'came through the Panama Canal' to attack Pearl Harbor

Written by:
Nur Ibrahim
Aug. 26, 2025 But the president has made errors when referring to the 1941 attack from Japan.
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Photo shows 400-year-old bonsai tree that survived U.S. bombing of Hiroshima?

Written by:
Nur Ibrahim
July 18, 2025 The tree lives in Washington, D.C., at the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum.
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Authentic video of WWII vet Henry Whitaker singing on 'America's Got Talent'?

Written by:
Jordan Liles
May 19, 2025 Videos allegedly showing "AGT" performances by a World War II veteran and a 54-year-old man name ...
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Investigating WWII-era photo of woman posing with skull of 'Japanese soldier'

Written by:
Jordan Liles
May 9, 2025 The original caption alleged the photo depicted the woman writing a thank-you note for the skull ...
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