World War II US Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi survived two chest wounds from Japanese gunfire, the Bataan Death March, wretched captivity in prisoner-of-war camps and the sinking of his first POW ...

The visitors center at the Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial in Margraten. (Rob Engelaar/Getty Images) The Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial in Margraten, the only American military ...

Time is running out for the last living U.S. veterans of World War II. At 102 years old — “103 next month,” he said with a grin — Robert Heiss spends his afternoons playing cribbage and devouring ...

A memorial recognizing Black WWII soldiers was quietly taken down at a U.S. military cemetery in the Netherlands. Dutch media reports that two informational panels about African American soldiers in ...

Friends of the National World War II Memorial and the National Park Service on Tuesday co-hosted a Veterans Day observance at the memorial, honoring the 16 million American men and women who served in ...

Nearly one million African American soldiers fought in Europe during World War II. Now, plaques at a memorial site honoring the sacrifice of African American soldiers in the Netherlands have been ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Joey Balfour is the Assistant Director of Oral History at the National WWII Museum. The digital collections of the WWII Museum is vital to the memory and lessons of humanity. The ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — You can now find one local World War II veteran, Donald Clemente, in the archives at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. Photo shows Donald Clemente from when he ...

Air power may have proved lethally effective during the First World War, but the technology was still in its infancy. By 1939, however, European air forces as well as North American and Asian powers ...

Thousands of people were forced to evacuate a bustling neighborhood of Hong Kong overnight while experts sweated through the delicate work of defusing an undetonated nearly 5-foot, 1,000-pound bomb ...

A large U.S.-made bomb left over from World War II was defused on Saturday after it was discovered at a construction site, police said. Thousands of people were evacuated from their homes after a ...

Hong Kong police evacuated 6,000 people from a densely populated residential and commercial neighborhood late Friday night after construction workers unearthed an undetonated World War II bomb, ...