Polk now refers to a General James H. Polk, a World War II cavalryman who became a commander of U.S. Army Europe.

FORT POLK - In a ceremony Friday at the Fort Polk Joint Readiness Training Center, the Vernon Parish Army base was ...

The unit of 855 Black women was celebrated for clearing a massive backlog of undelivered mail for American service members.

"To have him return back to San Francisco to be buried at the Presidio in the last place he saw before he left America (is) ...

After 80 years, researchers located the bow of USS New Orleans torn off by a Japanese torpedo during a 1942 WWII naval battle ...

Thousands of people from Bosnia and around the world are gathering in Srebrenica to mark the 30th anniversary of the massacre of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim boys and men.

The remains of a U.S. soldier killed during World War II have finally been laid to rest. A funeral service was held on Friday at San Francisco National Cemetery in the Presidio for Corporal Ernest H.

Pvt. Richard Gordon Wright, an Oklahoma Marine killed in World War II during the battle of Tarawa, was honored at a busy ...

A Japanese torpedo slammed into the USS New Orleans in 1942, tearing off nearly one-third of the ship and killing over 180 ...

GRETNA, Va. – A local 101-year-old World War II veteran was finally honored with service medals earlier today. Gretna native ...

Working on the Home Front, 1942–1945." exhibit features a collection of about 50 black-and-white photographs of wartime ...

HONOLULU ( HawaiiNewsNow /Gray News) – An 8-year-old boy was critically injured after falling into a WWII-era bunker in ...