WWII

A 98-year-old WWII veteran was just honored with the Combat Infantryman Badge nearly 80 years late. Gregory J. Slavonic, acting undersecretary of the Navy, said the veteran should’ve received this ...

Ninety-seven-year-old Private First Class Arthur Brodin was simply grateful for his Colorado home and his health. But during ...

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump laid a wreath at the World War II Memorial in ...

WWII veterans join the Commander in Chief to honor the 75th anniversary of German forces' surrender, California retailers ...

OPIJNEN, Netherlands—Staff Sgt. Maurice Gosney was just a name carved on a white cross until a young Dutch ...

BASTOGNE, Belgium—Side by side, the Allies and former enemy Germany together marked the 75th anniversary of one of ...

WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn.—A World War II-era plane with 13 people aboard crashed and burned at the Hartford airport ...

Early on the morning of Sept. 1, 1939, the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein fired the first shots at the ...

BOZEMAN, Mont.—A World War II soldier from Montana who died on an island in the Pacific Ocean 75 ...

The stunning natural beauty of Guam, a tiny island in the western Pacific Ocean, is reason enough to ...

President Donald Trump hosted four World War II veterans at the White House on Thursday, keeping a promise ...

Elsie Seetoo was 25-years-old when she joined the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in China to help the American ...

Seventy years ago, when I was a child, what then was designated “Armistice Day” for the memory of ...

STOCKHOLM—The Norwegian government has apologized to Norwegian women who were mistreated after World War II for having relationships ...

WASHINGTON—Three of the 13 surviving Navajo Code Talkers of World War II met with President Donald Trump at ...

On the night of Nov. 23, 1943, German fighter pilot Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer intercepted an allied plane with a ...

NOAA researchers with the Okeanos Explorer expedition recently captured a video of B-29 bomber wreckage during one of ...

The famous Marine photograph, 'Iwo Jima', was taken by AP photographer Joe Rosenthal in 1945. The events in the ...

Heinrich Himmler personally supervised the hunt for the treasure ripped from Rome when the Visigoth King Alaric sacked ...

Since 2013, he has conducted those missions for the newly reorganized Pentagon agency whose predecessor he and others ...

At 22, 2nd Lt. John Pedevillano was the youngest bombardier in the U.S. Army Air Corps' 306th Bomb ...

At precisely the moment of life or death for some prisoners during WWII, a strange coincidence directed their ...

64 years later and 26 hundred feet underwater, a World War II aircraft carrier found off the San ...

The day after President Obama asked Congress to authorize military force against ISIL, he signed a veterans suicide ...

Thoughts and words come fitfully to the old sailor. But Herman Schnipper, 91, is adamant about his wishes ...