USS Puffer launched on Nov. 22, 1942, and on Oct. 9, 1943, during its maiden voyage, encountered an escort destroyer leading a large tanker.

Father Kapaun’s story is retold in the new biography No Bullet Got Me Yet by John Stansifer. Stansifer tells the remarkable story of Chaplain Kapaun, a World War II and Korean War chaplain who ...

Rose DeJesus could remember her brother Joe Saracino well, mainly that he was like any young man at the time she last saw him. “He liked the girls, and he especially liked the next door neighbor, Ida, ...

Durwood “Bud” Buchheim, 101, of Sun Prairie, and John Storer, 97, of Maple Bluff, are among the estimated 100,000 or fewer ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was attending Armistice commemorations in Paris on Monday, making him the first UK leader ...

Before shipping overseas for World War II, Bud Sabetay enjoyed a trip to Coney Island amusement park in New York. A fortune teller read his palm and told him that he had a long lifeline and would ...

Jeremiah P. Mahoney had been missing in action since 1945. His remains will be interred in Arlington National Cemetery in ...

Roughly 110,000 World War II veterans remain out of the 16 million. Someone who was drafted or joined the military in 1945 at ...

According to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2023 estimates, York County is home to 25,111 veterans, 6.9 percent of the county's population of more than 363,000.

Today, the National World War II Memorial will mark its 20th Veterans Day on the National Mall. A memorial once disparaged as a “shrine to sentiment” has become a Washington fixture with more than ...

Bernard Calvi's remains were positively identified in September, more than 82 years after he died as a prisoner of war. He's among hundreds of POWs at Cabatatuan whose remains could ...