World War II Navy veteran Ira “Ike” Schab, one of the dwindling number of survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl ...

World War II US Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi survived two chest wounds from Japanese gunfire, the Bataan Death March, wretched captivity in prisoner-of-war camps and the sinking of his first POW ...

It was Dec. 17, 1944, and the Battle of the Bulge – one of the bloodiest, coldest battles of World War II – raged on for the ...

John Frank Rozar, a graduate of Colorado Springs High School (now Palmer High School) who went on to join the Navy, was one of more than 2,400 American service members killed in the Dec. 7, 1941, ...

A secret biological and chemical warfare research unit of the Imperial Japanese Army was found in China during World War 2, ...

Now rocks and soil from southern parts of Okinawa Island, where the bloodiest fighting took place, are being quarried in order to build the foundations for a new US air base. The plan has sparked ...

A fixture of the East Bay’s historical landscape, Betty Reid Soskin spent more than a decade helping visitors understand ...

When you think about more recent military history, it’s unsurprising that World War II is the centerpiece of most ...