Many acts of heroism occurred during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, including a remarkable fight by the destroyer escort Samuel B ...

President-elect Donald Trump has yet to take office, but his influence already is rippling through state capitols.

Carlisle, Pa., got its name from Carlisle, England. But at least five towns got their names from the Pennsylvania borough.

From 1943 through 1946, more than 3,400 prisoners (including 15 Nazi generals) were processed at Fort Hunt, according to ...

France’s president has paid homage to former French Resistance activist and author Geneviève Callerot, who has died aged 108.

World War II veteran Martin Copenhafer, who survived D-Day in 1944, is starting over at age 104 after his Malibu home was recently lost in the Pacific Palisades fire.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Tuesday that U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Eugene J. Darrigan, 26, ...

We recently lost another hero. Bob Harrell from Vivian passed away on January 5th at 102 years old. Harrell was one of the ...

When Charity Adams Earley was sent across seas in 1944, she was faced with a monumental task: Get millions of pieces of mail ...

World War II was such an utterly massive conflict that it really is amazing how many great stories rarely get their due. When you have a war that big and ...

A World War II veteran who survived D-Day was forced to flee during the Palisades Fire and lost his home. Now, as he turns 104 years old, he's forced to start over. Unlike many of his birthdays before ...

A 96-year-old woman living at Cedarhurst Senior Living in Breese, Illinois, shared her remarkable story with First Alert 4.