That sounds like something I’d like to do, thought 80-year-old Ernie Andrus when he cheered on a man who was running through ...

WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. -- As the World War II bomber Heaven Can Wait was hit by enemy fire off the Pacific island of New Guinea on March 11, 1944, the co-pilot managed a final salute to flyers in an ...

Arthur Grabiner, from Queens, joined the Navy at 18 and served in the Pacific aboard the USS Laurens, participating in the Invasion of Lingayen Gulf and the Battle of Okinawa, officials said.

Eighty-one years after being reported missing in action, a second lieutenant shot down in the Pacific during World War II is finally coming home.

Four crew members’ remains are beginning to return to their hometowns after a remarkable investigation by family members and ...