Researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography helped find and identify crew members on a B-24 bomber shot down in ...

During WWII, women entered the workforce and many were recruited to assemble airplanes for the war. Palacioz was one of them. She joined Boeing in Wichita at 17 years old and became a riveter working ...

A Pennsylvania man who was killed in a Tokyo prison fire during World War II was identified and accounted for nearly 80 years ...

Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan, who grew up in Austin, tracks parent's love in 'Bob & Jean' ...

When John Logan Nelson tried to enlist in the U.S. Army during World War II, he failed the physical. However, Nelson didn’t give up and was finally accepted into military ...

When the United States entered World War II following the attacks on Pearl Harbor, Audrey Horton was just eight years-old. As ...

Sgt. James Raley's account came almost three months to the day after he improbably survived that fall from the skies over ...

My grandfather was a Nazi. The U.S. may have absolved him as a fellow traveler, but I'm still left to wrestle with ...

Operation Barney was conceptualized by Vice Admiral Lockwood to avenge the loss of Wahoo and her intrepid crew.

Army Pvt. William Crawford was declared killed in action and was awarded a posthumous Medal of Honor, which was presented to ...

As he gripped the controls of his bomber plane on his first war time mission, 21-year-old Harry Richardson gazed back at the British coast for what he feared was the last time.

And women had secured their place in history and proved their value in the workplace. The classic image of “Rosie the Riveter ...