On a cloudless day off the Philippines coast, Shigetoshi Kaneko held onto floating debris while adrift, clinging to hope ...

Jimmy Carter, the longest-lived American President, passed away on Sunday, December 29, 2024, at the age of 100.

A Kansas native and World War II veteran will turn 100-years-old Monday. Sylvester Lira was born in Osage City on Dec. 30, ...

Mrs Quevâtre has been sharing her memories with BBC Guernsey as part of The Island Memories Project to create a digital audio ...

Because nearly all Americans back home could claim a personal connection to the 16.4 million people who served in the U.S. military during World War II, it might not even have been the biggest factor.

Harry Chandler, a Navy corpsman who witnessed the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941 from a hillside hospital before rushing down to ...

A sailor in Hawaii and a soldier in the Phillippines were the first and last Medal of Honor recipients of World War II.

Israel invoked a World War II precedent in trying to justify its preemptive strikes in Syria. During WWII, the Royal Navy attacked the fleet of its former ally to keep it from Nazi control. Both ...