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

A Woonsocket native who was wounded driving a boat full of soldiers onto Omaha Beach on D-Day will receive an award the World ...

World War II veteran Thomas Roberts celebrated his 100th birthday with a special celebration at VFW Post 4588 in Bossier City ...

Photos show the USS Laffey still sitting upright on the seafloor with much of her bow and midsection intact despite more than ...

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ...

Looking for World War II in Singapore means peering through a fast, feverish, imaginative city, for a slow, old, and ...

Eighty years after a U.S. airman went missing in World War II, his family has received a token to remember him by.

On June 4, 1944, the US Navy captured its first German submarine. Now it's displayed at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science ...

An erotic mosaic stolen from Pompeii by a Nazi captain during World War II was finally returned to the ancient site on ...

Berlin's Final Battle delves into the dramatic and brutal final days of the Third Reich as Soviet forces closed in on the German capital. Witnessing the intense street-to-street fighting, Waffen SS ...

Zamperini's dream of participating in the 1940 Tokyo Olympics was thwarted by World War II. The games were canceled and he traded his track shorts for a military uniform, thus commencing his second ...

After more than 80 years after Private Mack Kidd was killed fighting Japanese troops, he will be laid to rest in North ...