When World War II started, Africa was (save for certain exceptions) a tapestry of colonies. A third of the continent’s ...

Harriet Petersen, of Cranston, wrote, "It was the only entertainment he had during his nine months of active service and now ...

Takamatsu runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge - parts of the skulls, he says, of an infant ...

Andrew Biggio never met his great-uncle, but he’s gotten to know him well. “My uncle was killed in World War II — I’m named after him,” Biggio said. “He didn’t make it home from his war, and I did. I ...

Marking 80 years since the Tokyo air raids of World War II claimed approximately 100,000 lives, people gathered from the ...

Kevin Bennetts from Wadebridge bought the set online and spotted the name JB Earl on the rim of one medal but had no idea where the mystery soldier came from. When he put a post about the mystery ...

Blechinger was a German soldier ... his name to Elias Kokkinos, started a family and died in Greece. Elias Kokkinos was in Dresden. His mother was Czechoslovakian and his father was Austrian, but ...

A WWII veteran whose remains were previously listed as unaccounted for will be laid to rest on Friday in his hometown of ...

Army 1st Lt. Jack Treadwell single-handedly took out six German pillboxes and captured 18 enemy soldiers during World War II.

In January 1940, the destroyer HMS Exmouth was hit by a torpedo, and sank with the loss of all crew on board. Now, thanks to ...