In the closing years of World War II, more than 500 Australian and New Zealand POWs risked capture — and death — by fleeing ...

He was on the road between St. Laurent and St. Lo out front with a mine detector when he was killed by machine gun fire. He ...

The family of a World War II veteran who sacrificed his life in a crash over the Baltic Sea more than 80 years ago recently ...

Michael Soares and his daughter Abbie, 17, of Bloomington have been studying D-Day casualty Private Cecil Toler of Charleston for a research project in which they will present their findings in June ...

A few weeks ago at the Francestown Community Market, Scott Carbee asked me if I was covering Greenfield’s Memorial Day event.

Fourteen young men died in 1943 when their bomber had trouble lifting off the runway in what would become Palm Beach ...

The remains of a Williamsport Army Air Forces staff sergeant killed in World War II when the B-24J “Liberator” bomber on ...

Oakley Hacker, a Clay County native, achieved the rank of gunner’s mate second class and served as an armed guard aboard the ...

Thursday is the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. As leaders of countries that suffered greatly during and after the war, we attach great importance to this date. We remember ...

Nielsen told them about Lidia Durr Zakrzewski, a teenager who joined the Polish resistance during World War II. She served as the real-life model for the young heroine in Nielsen’s 2024 novel ...

More than anything, World War II taught us vigilance ... One soldier wrote his daughter that “the anti-aircraft gunner in a raid and the boy in a landing barge really did feel at moments ...