WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (Tribune News Service) — In March of 1945, there was a parade honoring the homecoming of Lt. Margaret “Peggy” Nash, a U.S. Navy nurse who had served in the Philippines, where she was ...

German soldier and Black nurse overcome the obstacles of interracial marriage June 12, 2013 — -- Unlikely romances, couples defying all the odds against their love - are iconic story plots from ...

Sixteen million men and women served in uniform during World War II. Today, 1.2 million are still alive, but hundreds of those vets are dying every day. In honor of Memorial Day, NPR'sAll Things ...

It's the ultimate homecoming photo — a smiling family rushing to reunite with a U.S. Air Force officer in 1973 who spent years as a POW in North Vietnam, his oldest daughter sprinting ahead with her ...

WALLINGFORD, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- Delaware County resident and Vietnam War veteran Ralph Galati knows what a helping hand looks like. The U.S. Air Force veteran was shot down in his F-4 Phantom jet ...

When Anna Gabulya saw a television report of a POW’s return to Hungary a half-century after he served during World War II, she noticed the resemblance immediately. She saw in András Toma a likeness ...

I'd die before I wore those -- Oh my God, this is really war -- Everything under control -- Banzai -- Chin up, girls -- Room 30A -- Where were you when we needed help? -- Fed up with the way things ...

From the battlefields of the Revolutionary War to the trenches of World War II to the sprawling jungles of Vietnam, thousands of our patriotic service members have been horrifically captured by the ...