This soldier became the first Hispanic American MOH recipient of WWII. The Japanese occupations in June 1942 on the Aleutian islands of Attu and Kiska, originally planned as a feint to divide the U.S.

BASTOGNE, Belgium — Some of the last living American veterans of World War II on Saturday met with world leaders and many other admirers as they recounted how the Allies braved subfreezing ...

A fisherman pulled an unexploded, decades-old artillery shell from the Passaic River in Bergen County on Thursday, according to Lyndhurst police. The shell was extracted around noon from the water ...

According to most official accounts, Georgia Watson did not exist. As part of a highly secretive Army unit, composed almost entirely of women responsible for defending D.C. against an air attack, ...

Nicholas Hartman was 20 when he died on D-Day during WWII. This summer, nearly 80 years after his death, he was finally ...

MOSCOW — Dozens of people were evacuated from their homes today in Russia’s capital after maintenance workers uncovered hundreds of rusty World War II-era artillery shells beneath a road. Sappers ...

Two Polish men in their 60s seem to have learned the hard way that handling old WWII shells while intoxicated can have ...