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 ...
In the quiet, sun-dappled halls of the Tribute Senior Living Facility in Prosper, you’ll find Johnnie Rothfus, a 100-year-old World War II veteran Army-Air Force staff sergeant and retired Dallas ...
Rose DeJesus, 97, could remember her brother Joe Saracino well, mainly that he was like any young man at the time she last saw him.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was attending Armistice commemorations in Paris on Monday, making him the first UK leader ...
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 ...
Veterans memorials are a common sight on Minnesota courthouse lawns. They often focus on military might. But in the small ...
I don’t know what war she referred to that was unnecessary (I agree there have been some) but World War II and the Korean War, the wars that brought about the change in the name in 1954, were very ...