World War II US Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi survived two chest wounds from Japanese gunfire, the Bataan Death March, wretched captivity in prisoner-of-war camps and the sinking of his first POW ...

Ah, power metal and historical military battles. Like chocolate and peanut butter or Tango and Cash, they just work together. I mean, hell — Sabaton made an entire career about it and it looks like ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. GRANITE FALLS, Minn. — A soldier plants his boot in the sand. The infantryman is ...

Time is running out for the last living U.S. veterans of World War II. At 102 years old — “103 next month,” he said with a grin — Robert Heiss spends his afternoons playing cribbage and devouring ...

A memorial recognizing Black WWII soldiers was quietly taken down at a U.S. military cemetery in the Netherlands. Dutch media reports that two informational panels about African American soldiers in ...

On every Veterans Day, the list of World War II survivors shrinks further due to the inescapable passage of time.As that happens, their stories — an important part of American history — take on added ...

The Nazis couldn’t stop them back then, and so the cold air and biting, constant wind blowing across the National Mall wasn’t going to stop them Tuesday. A group of World War II veterans were among ...

Friends of the National World War II Memorial and the National Park Service on Tuesday co-hosted a Veterans Day observance at the memorial, honoring the 16 million American men and women who served in ...

Alice Darrow shows a photo of herself from when she was a nurse during World War II, Oct. 23, 2025, at her home in Danville, California. (Laure Andrillon/AP) DANVILLE, Calif. — At age 106, Alice ...

Nearly one million African American soldiers fought in Europe during World War II. Now, plaques at a memorial site honoring the sacrifice of African American soldiers in the Netherlands have been ...

Some 1.25 million Pennsylvanians fought in World War II, and more than 33,000 died in the world's deadliest conflict. However, the number of World War II veterans — the "Greatest Generation" as coined ...