After more than a decade, remains discovered in southern Minnesota have finally been matched to World War II veteran Luis ...

Fifty-five years after a WWII pilot was shot down and died near Iwo Jima, a Lafayette boy recalled details of the event and ...

As school and work wrap up, crowds fill Tokyo's many bustling arcade halls -- not to battle it out in fighting games, but to snag plush toys from claw machines.

Operation Cowboy stands as one of only two documented occasions during World War II when U.S. and Wehrmacht forces fought ...

Seventy years ago, a wrong number prompted the U.S. Air Force to begin issuing reports of St. Nick’s progress on Christmas ...

The pilots were part of the Berlin Airlift bringing lifesaving supplies into West Berlin, which had been blockaded by the ...

Kids in Europe were benefiting too from school lunch and infant nutrition programs powered by American donations and the Marshall Plan. Food aid for the millions of starving people in Europe saved ...

A recent Census Bureau study showed that 21st century young adults in the U.S. haven’t been adulting like baby boomers did.

On May 5, 1945, a quiet spring afternoon near Bly, Oregon, became a tragic moment in American history. Six innocent lives were lost when a Japanese balloon bomb (one of the mysterious Fu-Go weapons ...

RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) — Betty Reid Soskin, who rose to national fame as the oldest National Park Service ranger and used the spotlight to talk about the African American experience during World War II ...

Human remains found along a Minnesota highway a decade ago have been identified as a World War II veteran. The remains were ...

World War II Navy veteran Ira “Ike” Schab, one of the dwindling number of survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl ...