Now, we know he's with his mom, and that's huge," said Marilyn Smith, Van Heck's niece. The World War II soldier lost in battle more than 80 years ago finally returned home. Tuesday's inurnment ...

The remains of a Marine killed in World War II were identified and are scheduled to be laid to rest Tuesday, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced in a news release last week.

A U.S. Marine who sent an ominous letter home before he went missing in action during World War II has been accounted ... In November 1943, Marine Corps Sgt. Robert F. Van Heck, 25, of Chicago ...

Michel Martin speaks with filmmaker Tyler Perry and actor Kerry Washington about their film based on World War II's only Women's Army Corps unit of color.