Eighty years after the bloodiest battle in Marine Corps history, Leighton Willhite traveled to the National Museum of the ...

The kamikaze plane wasn’t more than 90 feet away, about the length of a basketball court. Its intended target was Edward Czechowski and his crew. The 20-year-old Navy coxswain acted quickly, shooting ...

The Army trained 18-year-old Virginia man David Poole as an airplane mechanic in 1943. He soon found himself on the cusp of ...

Small-town family stories and historical record show the importance of what we choose to remember of World War II ...

Eldridge, who was 108 years old and the oldest living World War II veteran in Ohio, died on the morning of Sept. 4, his ...

The kamikaze plane wasn’t more than 90 feet away, about the length of a basketball court. Its intended target was Edward Czechowski and his crew. The 20-year-old Navy coxswain acted quickly, shooting ...

An “atomic veteran” was a military service member who: At the time of their service, they were told not to discuss their involvement in nuclear tests because the information was classified. But in ...

The true commemoration of V-J Day lies in our actions: recording veterans’ testimonies before they are lost; teaching the next generation the human cost of war; strengthening alliances that ...

Just two weeks after American forces landed at Normandy on D-Day, Jack Leroy Tueller, one of those Americans, was taking sniper fire with the rest of his unit. Instead of sitting helplessly, Tueller ...

U.S. Army and World War II veteran Charlie Rinehart, lower left, shares a moment with fellow military veterans at Sprenger Health Rose Lane Nursing & Rehabilitation Center during a birthday ...

A World War II veteran and longtime Iowa resident was honored for his service in the U.S. Navy Scouts and Raiders, the precursor to the modern-day Navy Seals. The family of 99-year-old Al Hays ...