A long-forgotten African American cemetery in Jacksonville, where World War II veterans and descendants of slave families are ...

World War II, the deadliest and most destructive conflict in human history, reshaped the world as we know it. In this video, we take a closer look at what it was truly like to live through the ...

Carlsbad’s Nancy Stratford, now 106, is the last survivor of the 25 American women pilots who served in the Royal Air Force’s ...

Jake Larson, the World War II veteran and social media star known as “Papa Jake,” has died, his granddaughter posted on his ...

Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.

Sheboygan County residents went all out during the war effort for scrap materials to be recycled during wartime.

Harold Terens fought in World War II. He’s lived almost 102 years, celebrating his birthday a couple weeks early with family ...

Of all the moments from his storied 100 years, here is Yoshio Nakamura, age 18, raising his right hand and swearing to defend the Constitution of the United States when that supreme ... volunteered to ...

The film stars William Holden and tells of a unit of United States and Canadian troops on a World War II mission in Italy. Saturday evening’s entertainment includes a swing dance at the West ...

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The remains of an Army private from Detroit who died as a World War II prisoner of war in the Philippines have been identified 83 years later — almost to the day — and are set to be reinterred ...

Sgt. Joseph J. Drake, center, is escorted by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries as the Army Rangers of World War II are honored at a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony, at the Capitol in ...