Private Henry J. Smith, of Fulton, died in a prison camp in the Philippines in 1942. He will be buried in Michigan.

In the heart of the Pacific Ocean, on a narrow atoll barely rising above the sea, sits one of the most remarkable pieces of infrastructure in the world, not because it is the largest, or the busiest, ...

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

Eighty years later, the scars of the last American firebombing of a Japanese city remain — on the skin of a man who still lives mere yards from where hundreds died, on the surface of a statue of a ...

Flags in Iowa will be at half-staff on Saturday, June 28, in honor of a World War II veteran whose remains had been missing since 1945.

A 19-year-old airman killed in action during World War II has made his way back home to Iowa. Cpl. Melvin Leslie Huff, a native of Iowa Falls, attended high school in Eldora through his junior year.

Two of the five surviving Army Rangers, among the 6,500 who served in World War II, attended a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony at the Capitol on Thursday.

Those are the humble words of Pfc. John Wardell, 99, as he and U.S. Army Ranger veterans from World War II were honored with the Congressional Gold Medal on Thursday.

Members of the public and dozens of lawmakers gathered Thursday at Emancipation Hall on Capitol Hill as Congressional Gold Medals were awarded to five Army Rangers who served in World War II.

BAY MINETTE, Ala. -- A vietnam war veteran is celebrating his 101st birthday today.This is silas pope... Originally from clarke county, alabama.His family, frie ...

Bill Pilati, a Minerva resident and World War II veteran, still spry at 100. He tells his story.

After sitting in storage for more than 70 years Raymond Deyo decided it was time for a World War II flag to come out. He got some help from an expert to put this piece of history on display (WSFA) ...