HOMEWOOD, Ill. (WLS) -- There was a special honor Thursday for a World War II veteran who died alone during Chicago's 1995 ...

He survived the hell of war and a POW camp, only to die in a heat wave in Chicago,” said a retired army captain Thursday as ...

Zamperini's dream of participating in the 1940 Tokyo Olympics was thwarted by World War II. The games were canceled and he traded his track shorts for a military uniform, thus commencing his second ...

In March 1943, the U.S Army was on a critical mission - to prove it had learned from its bitter defeat at Kasserine Pass. East of the Tunisian town of El Guettar, the 1st Infantry Division , better ...

During World War II, iconic pictures portrayed Americans serving the war effort either in uniform or at home as defense plant ...

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers.

Eighty years after a U.S. airman went missing in World War II, his family has received a token to remember him by.

On Friday the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that the remains of U.S. Army Air Force 1st Lt. Wylie W. Leverett, ...

Major Paul Barnsley led a bayonet charge against a German strongpoint during the little-known Battle of Vallee Blanche in the ...

Before his time in the military, Yoshio Nakamura and his family were among roughly 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry ...

The DC movie universe relaunches with a new "Superman." It's got us thinking: Which is the best superhero movie of all? Our ...

Learn about the major world events and happenings, birthdays, and deaths that took place on July 12. Check what happened ...