Before they were known as the “Lost Battalion,” the 1st Battalion was a part of the 36th Infantry Division fighting in Europe ...

“I ran into the living room and I said ‘there’s a war, there’s a war on’. I was quite excited,” said Ruth, now 98. “I had no idea of the horror in my mother’s face, because she had been a nurse in the ...

As the depleted members of the 1st Infantry Division entered the ancient city of Aachen in October of 1944, they would be met ...

Robert Lee Messick, SN2, U.S. Navy, of Andalusia, is currently stationed at the Navy Supply Depot, at Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Honolulu, Hi. Funneling supplies to the vast Pacific Fleet is the ...

The French countryside inland of the D-Day beaches provided some of the toughest fighting terrain of WWII. The 'bocages' ...

COMMENTARY: All war is a defeat for humanity, but if there ever was a war with a just cause, it was World War II. Three men ...

Major General Ray Shields, the adjutant general of New York, will mark the end of World War II in Europe as the New York ...

As Victory in Europe Day is celebrated on May 8, the stories of those who fought in the Red Army for freedom are captured in ...

I think there was a feeling of relief, no doubt about it, because you were thinking that the killing, the dying, is stopping' ...

D-Day and the liberation of Europe was a momentous task consuming the energies of millions. The tens of thousands of combat ...

Peter Belcher was already a veteran of the D-Day landings and the Battle of the Bulge, but the worst was yet to come as he ...