A soldier who went missing in action during an aquatic mission in World War II has been accounted for, military officials ...

From 1943 through 1946, more than 3,400 prisoners (including 15 Nazi generals) were processed at Fort Hunt, according to ...

Scientists studied genetic material called mitochondrial DNA. In September 2023, they officially concluded the remains were ...

James "Ralph" Cochran was a radio operator in the United States Army Air Forces from 1943-46. He served as a gunner and radio ...

The 8th Air Force was founded on Jan. 28, 1942, in Savannah, Georgia, with seven men and no planes. By 1945, the Mighty ...

Several weeks earlier, the Palawan Massacre took place in the Philippines, where 139 American POWs were killed by Japanese ...

The Tuskegee Airmen were founded in 1941 in Tuskegee, Alabama when the U.S. Army Air Corp began a program to train Black servicemembers as Air Corps Cadets.

The historic, all-Black unit included more than 15,000 Black pilots, mechanics and cooks from throughout the nation, ...

A 100-year-old veteran in York County received his Purple Heart 80 years later. “The Purple Heart means quite a bit,” Sergeant Harold “Bud” ...

The U.S. Air Force has removed training courses for service members that included historical videos of its storied Black ...