Known as the “dancing mouse” due to its slippery movements in that final, fatal fight with the Imperial Japanese Navy, the ...

I wrote about my great-uncle Foster Stevens, who was killed nine days before the Nov. 11, 1918, armistice that ended World ...

The Navy destroyer was sunk in 1942 during World War II, after facing down overwhelming odds and fighting a pitched battle.

Second Lt. Thomas V. Kelly Jr. is the middle figure in the back row, standing, with his .45 pistol in a shoulder holster, in ...

Henry Diedrich, left, with shipmate Alfred Bodhaine on liberty in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1943. Diedrich served on the U.S.S.

Laudie Joseph Hanel served in the North Dakota National Guard 164th Infantry from 1941 to 1945. After training at Camp ...

The 'Doomed Legion' who 'merely wanted to help Australia': The role of Prisoners during World War II Remembrance Day, ...

Paul Whitaker died a hero during World War II. The 24-year-old first lieutenant was posthumously awarded a Silver Star for ...

Born in France in 1854, Alexander Coeur later immigrated to Nova Scotia, where he met and married Nellie Harrigan. The newly ...

The United States was dragged unwillingly into World War II by the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, ...

Here’s some detail on the 14 parishioners of St. Cecilia Catholic Church who were killed in the line of duty in World War II and are memorialized on a plaque ...

Marolda survived incessant bombing during the months-long fight for the Pacific island of Guadalcanal in 1942. He also ...