It almost sounds like something out of a movie. A WWII veteran’s Purple Heart, gone for decades, was recently found in Newnan, in a junk heap. A salvage worker ran across the medal after the case ...

Takamatsu Gushiken uses a hoe to move dirt while searching for the remains of those who died during the WWII Battle of Okinawa on Itoman. (Hiro Komae/AP) ITOMAN, Japan — Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a ...

Sept. 2, 2025, marked the 80th anniversary of V-J Day, the day Japan formally surrendered and ended World War II. Dolly Marshall, of Springfield, and Dorothy Key, of Goshen, were teenagers at the time ...

WESTMINSTER, MD. (WBFF) — Westminster native Army Pfc. Lawrence R. Beard died in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II. More than 80 years later, his remains have finally been identified ...

A team of divers is sharing their story from a 2008 recovery mission to find the remains of missing men from World War II. The Defense Prisoner of War and Missing in Action Accounting Agency work to ...

DETROIT — The remains of a U.S. Navy sailor killed in World War II have been identified after 80 years of being listed as "Missing in Action," the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced ...

U.S. Army Capt. Willibald Charles Bianchi, 29, of New Ulm, earned the Medal of Honor. He was killed on Jan. 9, 1945. Army Capt. Willibald Charles Bianchi, of New Ulm, Minnesota, survived the Bataan ...

A large U.S.-made bomb left over from World War II was defused on Saturday after it was discovered at a construction site, police said. Thousands of people were evacuated from their homes after a ...