This week marks the 30th anniversary of the infamous 1995 Chicago heat wave​, which took 739 lives. One of them was a World ...

He survived the hell of war and a POW camp, only to die in a heat wave in Chicago,” said a retired Army captain Thursday as ...

Pvt. Mack Kidd's remains identified, finally returning home for burial and honored for his heroic sacrifice during WWII in ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Kenneth L. Kramer, 20, a private in the United States Army Air Force, was accounted for on June 30, according to the Defense ...

Lt. William Bucey, who survived the Bataan Death March but died of malaria in 1944, will finally receive a proper burial in ...

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced this week that U.S. Army Pvt. Henry J. Smith, 27, of Fulton, New York, who ...

U.S. Army Air Forces pilot 2nd Lt. Gilbert A. Rauh, who was killed in action in 1943, will be interred Monday at Arlington ...

The one-mile creek, located on a largely uninhabited island, had been given its name during World War II after the Americans ...