The seven soldiers were kicked out of an ROTC program as World War II began. Last week, they were commissioned as Army ...

In 1943, Japanese pilots dismissed a new American fighter as slow, heavy, and inferior. That aircraft was the F6F Hellcat, ...

Arthur P. Barrett Jr. served on the USS De Haven, a destroyer he and his father helped build at Bath Iron Works.

At 102, retired Air Force Capt. Dick Nelms, who flew 35 missions over Nazi Germany in a Boeing B-17, shares his WWII ...

Seven Japanese American soldiers have been promoted to officer ranks in a solemn ceremony that comes eight decades after they ...

The Army has posthumously commissioned seven University of Hawaii ROTC cadets of Japanese descent who were killed during ...

From a crumbling pill box in the UK to a derelict rail line in Hawaii, these are the abandoned World War II places that the world forgot.

During World War II, Allied forces faced a brutal reality: anti-aircraft guns could fire thousands of shells and still fail ...

Transferred late in World War II, Japanese prisoners of war encountered suspicion in southwest Iowa before labor demands ...

Jack Martens, who turned 102 in Salem, served on naval destroyers during and after World War II and when he wasn't in uniform, he was learning to fly.

Before becoming an acclaimed sprinter on the world stage, Paddock served in field artillery during World War I. It was not a ...