Jennie Hodgers who ran away to the US and became a soldier, Albert D.J. Cashier. The Irishwoman "participated in some of the ...

While working on a biography of her great-grandmother Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Fiona Donovan unearthed a trove of letters ...

William Schloeder is part of a rare group of people who are over 100 years old and are World War II veterans.

In the months after World War I erupted, young men in Europe were killing each other by the tens of thousands. Yet on a frozen Christmas Eve in 1914, the guns briefly fell silent. On the 100th ...

Guards at the Curragh had blanks in their weapons and the internees, allied and German, were allowed to visit local pubs and ...

World War II Navy veteran Ira “Ike” Schab, one of the dwindling number of survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 105. Daughter Kimberlee Heinrichs told The ...

Not many veterans are still around that can claim they fought in North Africa during World War II, and even fewer can call themselves the oldest person in their country, but Norman Irwin can say he’s ...

Eighty years ago, a Dawson, Minnesota, man was aboard the USS Missouri when Japan surrendered and signed a peace treaty, essentially marking the end of World War II. "I tell you, I joined the Navy ...

FORT RILEY, Kan. (WIBW) - A U.S. Army hero from World War II who also served in the Korean War has died, officials announced Wednesday. Charles Norman Shay, a Native American who risked his life to ...

As the number of remaining World War II veterans continues to dwindle, Gilbert “Choc” Charleston, one of the last Native American WWII soldiers and the final surviving member of his unit, died on ...

John Lauritsen is an Emmy award-winning reporter from Montevideo, Minn. He joined WCCO-TV in late-July of 2007. Two days after he started, the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed. For many veterans, ...

For decades, the grave of Joseph H. White sat neglected and unmarked in an abandoned Seward cemetery overgrown with trees. But this summer, the burial site of the Civil War veteran who ended up in ...