WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — As the World War II bomber Heaven Can Wait was hit by enemy fire off the Pacific island of New ...

Monday's annual wreath-laying ceremony outside the museum was attended by several regional leaders including St. Louis police ...

As I See It,” a weekly photo column by Pulitzer Prize winner Stan Grossfeld, brings the stories of New England, including a ...

Crew of the “Heaven Can Wait” bomber in Papua New Guinea. 2nd Lt. Thomas V. Kelly Jr. is the middle figure in the back row, ...

Sometimes the secret to winning a war isn’t brute force—it’s Britney Spears, balloon tanks, or a chainsaw-wielding Uncle Sam ...

This week, we had the rare chance to hear from one of the few remaining World War II veterans—102-year-old John Smith, a ...

A major military parade in Moscow a week ago was just one of many celebrations of the victory of the United States and its ...

An urban explorer visited the haunting remains of two abandoned Japanese theme parks. Lukka Bradburn, 28, gained access to the sites while exploring the nearby ghost towns left behind after the ...

World War II was a war like no other in the magnitude of its effects ... Many other captured soldiers did not make it home. Those from the Soviet Red Army who had been forcibly recruited by the German ...

In 1943, at the peak of World War II, the British military took over the community and its surrounding area for training purposes - and no one has lived there since. It remains a deserted ghost ...

Woonsocket's U.S. Rubber Company produced inflatable tanks and other equipment for the "Ghost Army," misleading ... significance of Rhode Island in World War II and there are many aspects of ...

Army and Navy officers ... and one with an appropriate designation: the “ghost blimp.” The solution: blimps. The helium-filled aircraft were quiet, could cruise for up to 50 hours and handle ...