He was a member of a segregated unit in the Pacific Northwest that fought forest fires set off by Japanese balloon bombs.

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

Descendants of characters in “Operation Mincemeat,” a hit British musical now in New York, have gotten more out of seeing it ...

A look back to March 1975 for the debut of Marvel's World War II superhero team, the Invaders, starring Captain America, ...

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 service, according to a ...

A month of intensive fighting on Iwo Jima from Feb. 19 to March 26, 1945, resulted in the successful capture of the island in the Ogasawara Archipelago and proved to be crucial for the U.S. military ...

The U.S. Army ordered 65 of the 47Ds, which it dubbed the H-13 Sioux, while the Navy ordered 12, which it designated HTL-2.

Mohammed al-Bashir, who previously led Syria’s interim government, will now oversee the energy sector, tasked with restoring ...

They served as nurses dating back to World War I, but with some limited exceptions, women could not serve in other capacities ...

Syria’s new transitional government has been sworn in nearly four months after the Assad family was removed from power and as ...

Takamatsu Gushiken leaves a cave after a session of searching for the remains of those who died during the Battle of Okinawa ...