The USS "Edsall," a 314-foot-long destroyer, fought off Japanese forces for more than an hour before sinking beneath the ...

A Phoenix police officer is being hailed as a hero after he rescued a driver from a car submerged in a swimming pool by ...

A 223-year-old Washington, DC estate that once served as the secret strategic base for a World War II general was recently ...

A soldier from Webberville, U.S. Army Air Forces Sgt. James W. Swartz, 21, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war in ...

As thousands of U.S. and Filipino service members were captured and interned at POW camps, Swartz was among those reported ...

Resistance soon took place in different ways after Charles de Gaulle encouraged the fight to continue after the impending ...

Ulrich Renz, a former head of The Associated Press German-language service who also covered trials of leaders of the ...

PRAGS, Italy — In a little-known chapter in the waning days of World War II, U.S. troops rescued more than 130 political ...

On Thursday, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that U.S. Army Air Force Staff Sgt. Ralph L. Mourer, 23, ...

President-elect Donald Trump has promised to invoke a little-known, 226-year-old law to deport some immigrants from the US.

Throughout the last century, the U.S. armed forces resorted to asbestos-containing products as World War II demanded ...

At the end of World War II, 400 tons of documents, since dubbed the “Marburg Files,” were discovered in Germany. Among them ...