If you were to ask a teenage boy about his hobbies, you might hear about time spent playing in and/or attending various sporting events, using social media or listening to the latest pop music. When ...

In December 1944, the United States was still very much in the middle of World War II. The June 6 landings in Normandy were fresh in the minds of troops on the ground and Americans back home, but ...

Southern Minnesota's Lois Widmark, 104, played a key role in helping the Allies gain victory in World War II.

A Wisconsin World War II soldier who was shot down over Germany was laid to rest in Racine on Friday, Sept. 27. Staff Sgt. Ralph Bode was a tail gunner when his bombing mission over Kassel, Germany ...

GREEN – The upcoming CREW 1944 World War II Weekend at MAPS Air Museum will bring to life military memories and pay homage to the men and women who served their country during the second world war.

Roderick Edmonds, a twenty-four-year-old non-commissioned officer from Tennessee, is one of just five Americans recognized by ...

‘Pressure,' in theaters May 29, takes place in the stormy 72 hours before the Allied invasion of Europe in June 1944 ...

Civil rights leaders and families of World War II veterans celebrated the long-awaited exonerations of 256 Black sailors who were wrongfully convicted after the 1944 Port Chicago explosion, a disaster ...

The USS Lionfish was commissioned in 1944 and earned one battle star for service in World War II. It sank a Japanese submarine, rescued the crew of a B-29 bomber, and served as a training submarine.

On December 16, 1944, eighteen American soldiers stood alone against 500 German paratroopers during the opening hours of the ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHAM) – On Veterans Day, the men and women who have fought for the country are honored, including a 103-year-old World War II veteran who remembers storming the beaches of Normandy ...