This week marks the 30th anniversary of the infamous 1995 Chicago heat wave​, which took 739 lives. One of them was a World ...

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

During World War II, a German military captain acquired a stolen erotic mosaic while stationed in Italy. The ancient artwork ...

Private First Class Norman R. Thomas, a World War II veteran who went missing in action, was laid to rest in Chilton County ...

Thomas was a member of 48th Material Squadron, 5th Air Base Group, when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in ...

Speaker Frank F. Blas Jr. seeks to rename Route 6 the “World War II Survivors Memorial Highway,” as part of efforts to honor ...

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 ...

Armed with Gloster Gladiators—an aircraft already considered obsolete—RAF pilots over Malta repelled Axis air raids for days.

Thomas Odell Roberts celebrated his 100th birthday Thursday afternoon (July 17) at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4588 ...

Set 100 miles southeast of Berlin in Poland, the 900 guards of Stalag Luft III oversaw 10,000 or so prisoners, all Allied ...

The European Commission says it’s protecting farmers with a smaller but ring-fenced budget. Europe’s farmers say the cuts ...

Japan, the politicians in power of this country are sure. faced with the most serious security threat since the Second World War. According to CNN, the Japanese Defense minister said that this is ...