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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 ...
This week marks the 30th anniversary of the infamous 1995 Chicago heat wave​, which took 739 lives. One of them was a World ...
World War II veteran Thomas Roberts celebrated his 100th birthday with a special celebration at VFW Post 4588 in Bossier City ...
A Woonsocket native who was wounded driving a boat full of soldiers onto Omaha Beach on D-Day will receive an award the World ...
In the bitter winter of 1941, British military prisoners in Nazi-occupied Germany huddled around a Monopoly set, dazzled by the contents that awaited them. They didn’t pluck Community Chest cards.
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Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ...
GUNTERSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — A World War II Army veteran is celebrating his hundredth birthday. “It’s been a good life, really,” said William Morrow, a veteran from Blount County. William Morrow said ...
Photos show the USS Laffey still sitting upright on the seafloor with much of her bow and midsection intact despite more than ...
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.
Private First Class Norman R. Thomas, a World War II veteran who went missing in action, was laid to rest in Chilton County ...
If you visit World War II Weekend in Berwick today through Sunday, you’ll likely see vintage Jeeps, military trucks, and ...