Retired Adm. Barry K. Atkins, who received the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism while commanding what many military historians believe was the only U.S. Navy destroyer to sink an enemy ...

Barry Atkins, 94, Heroic World War II Admiral This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles ...

On a coastal town in England yesterday, mourners paid their respects at a funeral for Eileen Nearne, 89, who told very few people that, during World War II, she was a spy.

Eileen Atkins News from United Press International.Colin Firth says he read up on the art of illusion for his new movie "Magic in the Moonlight," but didn't try to master any complicated tricks on ...

Readers of William Stevenson’s 1976 book A Man Called Intrepid, about a Canadian-born Second World War spy for the British (named, oddly enough, William Stephenson) will find themselves in familiar ...

Eileen Nearne, heroic World War II secret agent, honored at funeral this week (FOLLOWUP STORY) By John F. Burns c. The New York Times News Service Wednesday, September 22, 2010 1:07pm News ...

If Hitler's Germany had won World War II, art museums across Europe would have lost most of their major collections to his goal of the putting together the greatest art museum in the world. This ...

The new movie takes inspiration from the remarkable stories of women spies serving during World War II. Here's the real history behind A Call to Spy.

REVERE — In a shady spot on the front lawn of the American Legion Post 61, a tall granite monument lists the names of 149 women from Revere who served in World War II. Eileen Haydock Merullo, 92 ...

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the UK’s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died. She was 95.

He graduated from Lorain High School. Atkins was a U.S. Army Air Corps veteran of World War II. He flew 44 combat missions as an aerial gunner throughout New Guinea and Australia in the South Pacific.

Leah Rawls Atkins views the Great Depression and World War II as “watershed years for the state of Alabama.” At noon on Wednesday, Sept. 30, the noted Southern historian will ...