A Black combat medic who treated 200 troops during the harrowing invasion of Normandy during World War II is being honored ...

Waverly B. Woodson Jr.’s 95-year-old widow was presented Tuesday with the Distinguished Service Cross he was awarded ...

Waverly B. Woodson Jr. was part of the only African American combat unit involved in the D-Day invasion during World War II.

PONCA CITY – Ponca City and Kay County are among the newest designations in the World War II Heritage City program that ...

AGAWAM — The Woo family, with roots in China, Los Angeles and here in the Pioneer Valley, had long sought a medal honoring a ...

The apparently pristine Gerardmer lake in the Vosges mountains of eastern France conceals a bleak legacy of 20th-century ...

Staff Sgt. John A. Tarbert of the Air Force died weeks before his son was born, but he was accounted for only this year.

Hundreds of paratroopers have dropped out of near-cloudless skies over a heath in the central Netherlands to commemorate the ...

It's a very special birthday for a World War II veteran in the Back Mountain. Willis Ide will turn 100 this Thursday.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has said Ukraine was “closer to the end of the war” with Russia than many ...

Waverly B. Woodson Jr. treated 200 men during D-Day — all while he was injured. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) hosted the posthumous ceremony Tuesday.

The remains of a soldier from North Dakota who fought in World War II have been identified, according to the Defense POW/MIA ...