World War II pilot Charles W. McCook died in action in 1943 but his remains were not identified for more than 80 years. He ...

Zamperini's dream of participating in the 1940 Tokyo Olympics was thwarted by World War II. The games were canceled and he ...

Valdemar DeHerrera Sr., the last surviving veteran of two storied New Mexico National Guard regiments associated with the ...

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

In “Atomic Echoes: Untold Stories of World War II,” two American literary writers discovered their ancestors fought on opposing sides of the war in the Pacific. They decided to follow their roots ...

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

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.

Tucked inside the Port of Los Angeles, an industrial island has become an unexpected flashpoint in the federal immigration crackdown. Terminal Island is best known for housing shipyards, warehouses ...

More than 80 years after his death, U.S. Army Pvt. Erwin Henry Schopp returned to his community in Plymouth, Nebraska. Family ...

On Sept. 3, the Chinese Communist Party will orchestrate a grand military parade in Tiananmen Square to commemorate victory ...

Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Japan is facing its most severe security environment since World War II as three potential adversaries in East Asia – China, Russia and North Korea – ramp up ...