A Woonsocket native who was wounded driving a boat full of soldiers onto Omaha Beach on D-Day will receive an award the World ...

Private First Class Norman R. Thomas, a World War II veteran who went missing in action, was laid to rest in Chilton County ...

Japan is facing its most severe security environment since World War II as three potential adversaries in East Asia – China, ...

A World War II veteran who helped liberate France celebrated his 101st birthday Thursday at one of the finest restaurants in the world. CBS News New York's Steve Overmyer takes us to a birthday ...

During World War II, a German military captain acquired a stolen erotic mosaic while stationed in Italy. The ancient artwork ...

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 ...

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

Speaker Frank F. Blas Jr. seeks to rename Route 6 the “World War II Survivors Memorial Highway,” as part of efforts to honor ...

An erotic mosaic stolen from Pompeii by a Nazi captain during World War II was finally returned to the ancient site on ...

Thomas Odell Roberts celebrated his 100th birthday Thursday afternoon (July 17) at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4588 ...

An mosaic panel on travertine slabs from the Roman era has been returned to Pompeii after being stolen by a Nazi German ...

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