Staff Sgt. John A. Tarbert of the Air Force died weeks before his son was born, but he was accounted for only this year.

Asae Hiyama gave birth to a son, her husband left to serve in the Imperial Japanese Army. It was the summer of 1943, and the ...

Army Pvt. John Greschiak of Watervliet, who was killed in action on Sept. 16, 1944, received a belated posthumous New York ...

Hundreds of paratroopers have dropped out of near-cloudless skies over a heath in the central Netherlands to commemorate the ...

The security cordons are up. The streets are ready to be sealed off. Aircraft from myriad nations are landing in New York.

Israel is bombing targets across many parts of Lebanon, striking senior militants in Beirut and apparently hiding bombs in ...

A close ally of President Vladimir Putin recently issued a stark warning to Western governments, cautioning that any approval ...

An overgrown airfield on a small island in the Pacific, once instrumental in America's role in ending World War II, is being ...

Historian John McManus rates the accuracy of World War II battles in "Masters of the Air," "Pearl Harbor," and "Flags of Our ...

Parachutists jump Saturday over Ginkel Heath, Netherlands, to mark the 80th anniversary of World War II's Operation Market ...

Mary Louise Nelson was born on September 19, 1924, and starting at 18 years old, worked at Douglas Aircraft in Santa Monica ...

The designation recognizes the contributions of local towns, cities, counties and their citizens who supported the war effort ...