Malaria could be as dangerous to GIs in the Pacific theater of World War II as the enemy. To fight it, they used hammers and ...

As a volunteer cave digger, Takamatsu Gushiken has unearthed the remains of several hundred people killed in one of the ...

Day was crucial for the linking of the Utah and Omaha Beach Bridgeheads. However, without the capture of strategic locations ...

A fighter pilot in a vastly outnumbered Royal Air Force — one of the “few” hailed by Churchill — he took to the skies to help ...

A World War II veteran in Wisconsin turns 100 years old. Both the VA and his senior living facility honored his service, ...

80 years ago, American and Japanese troops were locked in one of the fiercest and bloodiest battles of the Pacific theatre in ...

Discover the Intrepid Museum's World War II exhibit, showcasing the Corsair aircraft and artifacts from Loren Isley's final mission and other historic items.

Pfc. Frederick Rickard's death on Iwo Jima was the family's second tragedy in four months. His brother died in a Christmas ...

Clinton Burns was known throughout Dunnellon and elsewhere as a kind man who loved McDonald's. Learn more about his life here ...

Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headtorch and enters a cave buried in Okinawa's jungle. He gently runs his fingers through the ...

The San Antonio-based nonprofit Walk Among Heroes made arrangements for Boldt and a handful of other World War II vets to revisit the sites of battles they’d survived 80 years ago. Boldt’s ...