Veterans honored with special flights in World War II aircraft
Senior veterans were honored with special flights in World War II-era aircraft in Norwood, Massachusetts. WBZ-TV's Levan Reid reports.
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Senior veterans were honored with special flights in World War II-era aircraft in Norwood, Massachusetts. WBZ-TV's Levan Reid reports.
Arthur Rose, who was at the Battle of Normandy, was honored at the Massachusetts State House.
A group of World War II veterans traveled overseas from Boston to see their old battlegrounds.
The U.S. Army posthumously awarded three Bronze Star Medals this week to World War II veterans from Charlestown, honoring their heroism and sacrifice ahead of Veterans Day.
Eighty-year-old letters from World War II finally made it home, thanks to a postage collector in Western Massachusetts.
Drawing on never-before-seen letters, diaries, and other historical records, Edsel shows the painful price of freedom, on the battlefields and inside American homes.
Marine Cpl. John Edwinson Jr. was killed in the Battle of Guadalcanal but his remains weren't identified until last year.
An Endicott College graduate is on a mission to learn and write about every World War II veteran in her community. It's already connecting people who never would have met.
The remains of a World War II airman from Massachusetts have been positively identified, nearly 80 years after he went missing in action.
Sgt. Edward Kovaleski went missing in April 1945 after his plane crashed over Austria. His remains were found in 2021 and identified using DNA.
U.S. Army Air Forces Pvt. 1st Class Bernard J. Calvi, 23, died in a prisoner of war camp in the Philippines during World War II.
On those days that you may be thinking about skipping the gym, just remember 95-year-old David Scott.
In France to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Allied forces' pivotal D-Day landings in Normandy, President Biden honors WWII troops who freed Europe from tyranny.
World War II veteran Joseph Garrisi was severely injured in battle. His heroics left him not only with a scar, but two Purple Heart medals.
Three C-47 transport planes, a workhorse of World War II, dropped three long strings of jumpers, their round chutes mushrooming open in the blue skies with puffy white clouds.
The men were among 31 soldiers killed when their C-46 transport plane hit a cliff while attempting to land in Okinawa, Japan on Aug. 13, 1945
A book with records of a U.S. Navy destroyer's trips during World War II was found in a piece of furniture far from the now-sunken ship.
Of the millions of women who performed exceptional service, just dozens have survived long enough to see their work recognized.
A late veteran from Medford, Massachusetts will be award the Congressional Gold Medal for his role in the Ghost Army in World War II.
The FBI Boston Division returned 22 historic artifacts to Japan after they said a Massachusetts family found them in their late father's attic.
The FBI Boston Division returned 22 historic artifacts to Japan after they said a Massachusetts family found them in their late father's attic.
A 95-year-old World War II veteran is the latest graduate of Brighton High School.
A 95-year-old World War II veteran is the latest graduate of Brighton High School. WBZ-TV's Mike Sullivan reports.
U.S. Army Air Force 1st Lt. Alfred Pezzella was killed when his bomber was shot down on a mission targeting oil fields near Romania.
A young solider from Boston who had been missing in action in World War II for 79 years has been identified.
