Sgt. Reece Martin wanted to know more about his uncle, Lawrence Martin, who landed in France on D-Day and died in action 10 days later. So he spent years finding out. Last week, on the 84th ...

In 1955, the most decorated soldier in American history starred as himself in an incredible war movie about his actions ...

Maj. Gen. Raymond Shields, the adjutant general of New York, welcomed a French diplomat to mark the 80th anniversary of ...

In a forest near Berlin, the remains of 107 fallen Wehrmacht soldiers were ceremoniously interred last week. High school students placed white gerbera daisies on small black coff ...

Margot Friedländer, a German Jew who survived the Theresienstadt concentration camp and became a high-profile witness to Nazi ...

E ighty years after the Allied powers accepted Germany’s unconditional surrender and ended the fighting in Europe, world ...

WAGENINGEN, Netherlands (AP) — Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk made an impassioned plea for European and transatlantic unity Monday in a speech marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation ...

only six members of the 855-person World War II unit were still alive. Due to logistical delays, the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony wouldn’t be held for another three years. By the time it ...

The nation’s only Black, all-female unit to serve in Europe during World War II was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal on Tuesday, decades after their efforts helped lift morale for soldiers ...

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hosted a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony to the members of the “Six Triple Eight” battalion — the only Black, all-female unit to serve during World War II. The move came after a long ...

The only Black, all-female unit to serve in Europe during World War II, commonly known as the “Six Triple Eight,” will be presented Tuesday with the Congressional Gold Medal, following a long ...