World War II US Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi survived two chest wounds from Japanese gunfire, the Bataan Death March, wretched captivity in prisoner-of-war camps and the sinking of his first POW ...
A 23-year-old German lieutenant heard a wounded American soldier crying for help in a minefield on Nov. 12, 1944. Lt.
State officials, military cadets, active military service members and veterans gathered for a tribute to an often-forgotten World War II battle Monday afternoon. Packed into the Thomas Hart Benton ...
The “bone digger” slides into a thin crevice on a hill in the Okinawan jungle. He’s a slight man, nimbly fitting his frame through the cave entrance, carefully avoiding the sharp limestone roof while ...
A group of World War II veterans are heading overseas from Boston to see their old battlegrounds. The trip was made possible ...
Robert Zeller was barely out of his teens when he was shipped off to Europe to fight in World War II, including the infamous Battle of the Bulge in Belgium. He worked in an intelligence role ...
The United States and Australia were allied during the Second World War, fighting against the Japanese Empire and against ...
MANKATO — Dennis Boldt sat in his West Mankato living room as he reflected on his trip last summer to Europe, where he was honored for his military service in World War II. Greeting crowds below while ...
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Tuesday, Dec. 9, that U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Irvin ...
It was a blast from the past: World War II-era tanks, tank killers, and infantry battled on the fields of the Volusia County fairgrounds this past weekend to the crackle and boom of explosions and ...
Holocaust museums and Jewish veterans’ groups objected to the move, which had not previously been explained, as distorting ...