A Nazi captain gave artwork, which depicts an intimate Roman romance, to a civilian. When he died, his heirs decided to ...

A Woonsocket native who was wounded driving a boat full of soldiers onto Omaha Beach on D-Day will receive an award the World ...

Kenneth L. Kramer, 20, a private in the United States Army Air Force, was accounted for on June 30, according to the Defense ...

A California mother and son were lost deep in the woods. Then rescuers found a note that said ‘help' Simon Cowell Has the Best Reaction to a Former 'American Idol' Contestant's 'AGT' Audition Newly ...

After Free Press inquiries about inconsistencies in a news release, the DOD acknowledged that Kenneth Kramer, who died as a World War II prisoner in the Phillippines, was not from Detroit, but ...

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers.

Kenneth Kramer, just 20 years old when he died, was from Washington state and appeared to have no connection to Michigan, officials said.

Set 100 miles southeast of Berlin in Poland, the 900 guards of Stalag Luft III oversaw 10,000 or so prisoners, all Allied ...

On June 4, 1944, the US Navy captured its first German submarine. Now it's displayed at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science ...

Sheboygan County residents went all out during the war effort for scrap materials to be recycled during wartime.

Before radar towers and satellite surveillance, America’s shores were watched over by massive coastal forts. Some were active for over a century, while others fizzled out before they ever fired a shot ...

A team of scientists and explorers discovered the bow of the USS New Orleans off the coast of the Solomon Islands more than ...