After vanishing over the Pacific in 1942, Sgt. Thomas Cotner of Casper was presumed lost forever. Now eight decades later, ...

Here are some of New Jersey's WWII veterans who came home changed and worked to reshape their world. Of the 16.4 million soldiers who served in WWII, 66,000 remain. WWII veterans have an average age ...

World War II hero Frank S. Wright has been honorarily made a sergeant at the age of 100. His promotion occurred during a ceremony last week in northern California. The highly decorated Marine Raider ...

Discover the WWII story of Italian POWs at Letterkenny Depot in Chambersburg, now featured in a Franklin County exhibit through Veterans Day.

A ceremony was held is East Providence on Saturday morning, renaming Carlton Avenue to Avelino “Chappy” Rose Way, who recently passed away at 101-years-old. Chappy was born in East Providence in 1924.

It was dubbed the North African Stalingrad, but the bitter campaign for Tunisia remains one of the least-known of the entire ...

A piece of a World War II aircraft carrier residing for decades in Bergen County will soon be moved to the Battleship New Jersey.

While uniquely American, SEAL doctrine owes a technical and conceptual debt to Italy’s WWII combat divers, who first combined ...

When the USS Hornet sunk in World War II, a tractor used to move aircraft went down too. Now a recovery mission is being ...

AT CHINA’S Victory Day parade on September 3, Xi Jinping delivered a warning — the world stands at a crossroads between peace ...

As the Japanese Empire was planning to conquer the Pacific, they realized they would have to deploy their forces to many small islands or atolls where building an airstrip would be hard or impossible.