They will search for remains of four U.S. soldiers, including a general who became a hero after his refusal to obey Japanese ...

A humble World War II veteran who died more than 40 years ago is about to be awarded the nation's highest honor.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A soldiers check the last details of preparations of the cemetery before the annual Memorial Day commemoration at the American ...

World War II US Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi survived two chest wounds from Japanese gunfire, the Bataan Death March, wretched captivity in prisoner-of-war camps and the sinking of his first POW ...

The nation-wide mountaineering event has arrived in Park City to honor the Tenth Mountain Division's historic ascent of Riva ...

Ret. Army Master Sgt. Ed Beck made it through three wars and nearly died in a German POW camp to still be present, sharing ...

It was Dec. 17, 1944, and the Battle of the Bulge – one of the bloodiest, coldest battles of World War II – raged on for the second day. German bombing in Belgium had caused American forces to sustain ...

EUROPE (Island News) -- The Purple Heart is the oldest military decoration in the United States, established by George Washington in 1782. It tells a story about how a segregated battalion, made up of ...

Want to win a war? The number one rule of warfare is "no dancing"... Okay, not exactly. But it is one of the weirdest rules soldiers had to follow during World War II.

Eighty years ago, American troops were home for Christmas for the first time in years. For the previous four years, troops had faced holidays away from family, and in whatever conditions the war ...

In the winter of 1944, as some of the bloodiest fighting in World War II ramped up in Europe, 19-year-old then-1st Sgt. Jefferson Wiggins, along with hundreds of other Black soldiers, were tasked with ...