HOMEWOOD, Ill. (WLS) -- There was a special honor Thursday for a World War II veteran who died alone during Chicago's 1995 ...

After more than seven decades missing in action, U.S. Army Master Sergeant Wallace Simmons Jr. is returning home.

In March 1943, the U.S Army was on a critical mission - to prove it had learned from its bitter defeat at Kasserine Pass. East of the Tunisian town of El Guettar, the 1st Infantry Division , better ...

Set 100 miles southeast of Berlin in Poland, the 900 guards of Stalag Luft III oversaw 10,000 or so prisoners, all Allied ...

He was almost forgotten,” said Laure Dorchak of the local historical society. “People didn’t realize the significance of what ...

In World War II, the fighter pilots of the famed Tuskegee Airmen were given a strict order by their commander, Lt. Col.

MANASQUAN — The Manasquan Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 1838 celebrated World War II veteran Louis Archinal on Saturday ...

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

The remains of a fallen American soldier taken prisoner during World War II were en route Wednesday to his final resting place in Plymouth, Neb.

PVT Mack Kidd, a 20-year-old soldier from West Virginia with the famed Merrill's Marauders, died in July 1944.

On June 14, 1775, the Continental Congress called for 10 companies of expert riflemen to be organized and sent to Boston to assist the militia facing ...

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