Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty ...

The U-505 submarine served 12 patrols and sank eight enemy boats before the US Navy captured it. The U-boat is now on display ...

After more than 80 years, a fallen World War II hero from West Virginia is finally home. Family members, both in our region ...

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ...

One woman wondered back in September if it was her grandfather, Richard Yarling. We try to find out if he was the oldest ...

Jake Larson, the World War II veteran and social media star known as “Papa Jake,” has died, his granddaughter posted on his ...

On Nov. 30, 1942, the USS New Orleans was in the middle of a pitched battle off of Guadalcanal. A Japanese torpedo scored a ...

A Woonsocket native who was wounded driving a boat full of soldiers onto Omaha Beach on D-Day will receive an award the World ...

Eighty years after a U.S. airman went missing in World War II, his family has received a token to remember him by.

On June 4, 1944, the US Navy captured its first German submarine. Now it's displayed at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science ...