On May 1, 1945, General George S. Patton arrived at Moosburg just after the town fell, expecting a routine inspection but ...

A new documentary, "The Green Box: At The Heart of War," is based on Jim Kurtz's memoir about his father, a WWII bomber pilot. The film chronicles Kurtz's journey to uncover his father's story as a ...

SAN DIEGO — The remains of a World War II soldier who died as a Japanese prisoner of war more than eight decades ago arrived at San Diego International Airport on Thursday, fulfilling a mission his ...

Manny Ruben awoke midair, gasping for breath as he plunged through a cold blue sky some 20,000 feet above the ground. Planes burst into fireballs around him. He last recalled trying to help his buddy ...

Vic Alvin stood in full Native American regalia, waiting to perform for a crowd of thousands at the 46th annual Pow Wow at the Council of Three Rivers American Indian Center in Indiana Township. Alvin ...

FLORIEN, La. – The remains of a U.S. Army serviceman who died as a prisoner of war during World War II will be buried Tuesday with full military honors. U.S. Army Pvt. Blanchard E. Pruitt, 19, of ...

Army Brig. Gen. Guy Fort, 1st Sgt. John Chandler, Capt. Albert Price, and Lt. Col. Robert Vesey (left to right) were POWs executed by the Japanese in the Philippines ...

On Sept. 13 and 14, the park will host the United Lenape/Lunáapeew Nations Pow Wow, its first intertribal gathering since 1972 and the second-ever Lenape Pow Wow in New York City. The weekend welcomes ...

U.S. Army Pvt. Blanchard Pruitt was just 19 years old when he died in a POW camp in the Philippines Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A soldier from Missouri, who was captured as a prisoner of war (POW) and killed during World War II, has been accounted for. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced ...

Melanie Cardone-Leathers, a librarian at Longwood Public Library in Middle Island, was conducting an inventory of historical documents in 2010 when a discolored file box containing photographs and ...

BOONVILLE, N.Y. – Eight New York Army National Guard Soldiers provided funeral honors for a World War II Soldier who survived the infamous Bataan Death March --only to die in a Japanese POW camp later ...