Remains of sailor identified more than 8 decades after Pearl Harbor attack
U.S. Navy Seaman 1st Class Clyde C. McMeans, 26, was one of the 103 USS California crewmen killed during attacks on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
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U.S. Navy Seaman 1st Class Clyde C. McMeans, 26, was one of the 103 USS California crewmen killed during attacks on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Unexploded bombs dating back to past wars have been discovered in Serbia and around the world in recent years.
Retired U.S. Air Force Col. Arnald Gabriel, now 100, was once the conductor of the U.S. Air Force Band. Under his leadership, it became internationally renowned.
Survivors of the Nazi's notorious Auschwitz death camp are taking center stage at the memorial service to mark 80 years since its liberation by Soviet troops.
Robert Van Heck's family receieved an ominous letter from the Marine just minutes before learning he was killed, according to a news article.
In 2018, the I-Team helped the Dawson family prove that injuries Shelby Dawson sustained during his service warranted the awarding of a Purple Heart.
U.S. Navy Seaman 2nd Class John C. Auld, 23, was from Newcastle, England, and died aboard the USS Oklahoma on Dec. 7.
A number of unexploded bombs dropped by the U.S. military during World War II have been unearthed in the area, officials said.
A man who gave his life in service of his country finally received the recognition he deserved on Tuesday.
Alvin R. Scarborough, 22, was one of the troops subjected to a 65-mile Bataan death march in the Philippines during World War II.
The landing at Normandy on June 6, 1944, marked the beginning of the end of World War II and signaled the liberation of the Jews. But museum organizers also remind us that it is also important that we learn not just how the Holocaust ended, but also how we began.
U.S. D-Day veteran Command Sergeant Major Henry C. Armstrong returns to Normandy for the first time in 80 years, with mixed emotions.
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.
In the immediate lead-up to D-Day, naval codebreaker Jean Sims was one of the few who knew a major operation was coming.
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
Benjamin Hodges was lucky to be one of the 16 million vets who came home after the war, but those numbers are dwindling.
Of the millions of women who performed exceptional service, just dozens have survived long enough to see their work recognized.
A World War II pilot took to the skies again Saturday in Fort Worth.
101-year-old Grace Brown of Mesquite was a real-life Rosie, contributing to the war effort on the home front.
Noel Shoup was a pilot shot down over France in 1944 and his remains were unidentified for decades.
The Oscar-winning actor talks about his History Channel documentary, "761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers," about one of only a few African American tank battalions that saw combat in World War II, a time when the armed forces were still segregated.
In his latest film, the director examines the efforts of the physicist and his race to build the atomic bomb that ended World War II. What happened after the war proved to be an entirely different power struggle, as Oppenheimer was accused of being a Russian agent.
Ferencz secured convictions for 22 former Nazi commanders who were charged with murdering over 1 million Jews, Gypsies and others.
Frank C. Ferrel was 31 when he died in 1943. He was buried as an "unknown" for nearly a century.
