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Only 12 are still alive — all centenarians — and this year none is able to make the pilgrimage to Hawaii to mark the event.

Airman Clifford Keeney was shot down over Germany in 1944. His family waited eight decades for his remains to finally be...

Norman Irwin, Northern Ireland's oldest citizen, was recently honored by the British Army after celebrating his 107th...

A 23-year-old German lieutenant heard a wounded American soldier crying for help in a minefield on Nov. 12, 1944. Lt...

Gilbert "Choc" Charleston, who fought in the Battle of the Bulge and was the last remaining member of the 739th Tank...

Decorated Native American veteran Charles Shay has died at age 101 in France.

Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a...

Every morning over breakfast in early 1942, infamous German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel received a classified intelligence...

Taffy 3—consisting of six escort carriers, three destroyers, and four destroyer escorts—was there to cover troops storming...

In the summer of 1942, the British Eighth Army was losing the war in North Africa. Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps had smashed...