Neighbors, church members, and family gathered in Decatur to honor Joe Safford, a World War II U.S. Army veteran and longtime ...

Frank said he and a buddy of his started their heritage society some 25 years ago to keep alive the memory of those old veterans, and sometimes when they speak to his group, emotion can get the ...

War stories hit different when drawn from history's brutal pages. Hulu shines with series that dive into true events, blending soldier grit, homefront tension, and survival against odds. These aren't ...

From the 1890s through the World War II, battleships ruled the waves. These steel leviathans projected naval power across all the world's seas, clashing with other ships or bombarding enemy forces ...

Monday marks the 250th birthday of the United States Marine Corps, founded in Philadelphia. On this week's Spreading the Love, CBS News Philadelphia sat down with Private First Class Michael Grieco Sr ...

Out of all American World War 2 naval vessels, the USS Enterprise (CV-6) is by far the most decorated ship in the U.S. Navy It was originally commissioned in 1938 as a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier, ...

Between June 15 and July 29, 1945, six Army Air Forces pilots flying experimental Sikorsky helicopters evacuated between 75 and 94 wounded American soldiers from the Philippine jungles while under ...

World War II will soon transition from living memory to documented history, with VA projections from earlier this year estimating the last veterans may be gone within the next decade. Even the ...

Key Points and Summary - Commissioned in August 1943, the Essex-class carrier USS Intrepid fought across the Pacific, surviving a torpedo at Truk and multiple kamikaze strikes while launching raids ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Sunday, Ted Rush, who celebrated his 100th birthday, threw out the first pitch at the Isotopes game. Rush was born in Chicago in 1925 and joined the Marine Corps in 1943. He ...

As people globally commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, dozens of people living on the Japanese island of Okinawa renew their calls for American troops stationed there to leave ...

Okinawa resident Hiromasa Iha can still recall the screams of his classmates and teachers after a US military jet crashed into his elementary school, killing 18 people more than six decades ago. The ...