During World War II, tyranny and destruction swept over continents, and the very foundations of our freedom stood in peril.

In this powerful account, a B-17 navigator shares his personal story of a challenging WWII mission. He reflects on his ...

American historian Samuel Eliot Morison once said: ""If Tinian in the Pacific was the perfect amphibious operation on a small ...

In an interview last week, Raaen, 81 years later, remembers in vivid detail the horror of the pivotal World War II battle on D-Day 1944. He said the grim, opening of “Saving Private ...

To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the war, we asked historians to share their favorite museums around the world.

Medals didn’t matter on D-Day to soldiers like John Carpenter Raaen, Jr. “Never occurred to me,” said Raaen, now 103, a Winter Park resident and the only surviving Army Ranger who stormed Omaha Beach ...

A 20-year-old Sheridan woman made international headlines in 1931 when she drove 1,131 miles from Berlin to Moscow. She slept ...

OMAHA BEACH, France — The D-Day generation, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 years ago. World War II veterans, now mostly centenarians, ...

When Mary Mullaney answered a knock at the door of her Newark residence in the summer of 1944, she found officials from the U.S. Navy waiting to speak to her. Several of her sons were serving overseas ...

Top-secret World War II maps used by Allied troops for the D-Day landings have sold at auction for £23,000 (over $30,000) - after being found in a cardboard box. The collection - giving ...

World War II veteran John "Harry" Kellers beamed from his chair Sunday morning, underneath a shade tent in the sweltering East Patchogue heat, as dozens of friends, family and well-wishers sang "Happy ...

BENTON COUNTY, ARKANSAS, Ark. — Benton County Veteran Services is looking for World War II veterans and surviving spouses to honor and celebrate at the county's Veterans Day ceremony this November.