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I volunteered for the RAF in April 1941, age 18 and joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve in September 1941 as a Trainee Cadet...

I joined the Marines in 1935.I joined the Army in 1942. I volunteered to join the first army to train for the greatest...

World War I has been noted for the amount of incredibly evocative war poetry it produced, notably from such soldier-poets as...

On a peaceful day in December 1941, Staff Sgt. Lee Embree took off in a Boeing B-17E for what promised to be a quiet flight...

The men in his unit called their medic the "gentle giant," for Tech. 5 Alfred L. Wilson towered over the rest of them as he...

George, Frank, Red, Matt and Al Stuck Together -- and died together aboard the USS Juneau.

"Hit hard, hit fast, hit often" was Fleet Adm. William F. "Bull" Halsey's slogan for his Third Fleet during World War II.

On July 26, 1945, the USS Indianapolis reached the tropical island of Tinian after traveling 2,000 miles in less than 75...

Seaplane's crew risked all to save 56 men from sunken USS Indianapolis.

Brilliant and controversial, George S. Patton is remembered for more than World War II triumphs.