The remains of an American soldier killed in a Nazi war crime during World War II have been returned to the San Francisco Bay Area. U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Yuen Hop of Sebastopol was a waist gunner on a ...

At just 17 years old, Joseph Coy left Pittsfield High School to enlist in the Navy, serving on Utah Beach on D-Day and later ...

More World War II veteran stories ... Simon found himself with other young soldiers in Atlantic City, New Jersey, looking under its famous Boardwalk for German submarines. Not that they would ...

West Palm Beach centenarian Franklin Simon, who celebrated his 100th birthday in June, served heroically in Europe during ...

Two Beaver County residents lost their lives 81 years ago in a German minefield explosion that killed hundreds of soldiers aboard ... As part of World War II’s strategy to liberate Italy from ...

Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration camp, was liberated 80 years ago. Here’s a brief description of the liberating ...

(AP Photo, File) A group of Jews, including a small boy, is escorted from the Warsaw Ghetto by German soldiers on April 19 ... perished during World War II, from 1940 until 1945. (AP Photo, File) A ...

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.

As soldiers fighting for Ukraine try to hold onto ... but now with U.S. President Donald Trump pushing to end the war, there is speculation that Kursk is also a bargaining chip that can be used ...

Also on this date: In 1945, Associated Press war correspondent Joseph Morton was among a group of captives executed by German soldiers at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Austria.

When her speech ended, a lone soldier played “The Last Post” on his bugle to commemorate the Black servicemen as war dead, 106 years, two months and 11 days after the end of World War I.