Sgt. Robert F. Van Heck, of Chicago, Illinois, was 25 years old in 1943 when he was killed during the U.S. campaign in the ...

Surviving family members gathered at Queen of Heaven Catholic Mausoleum in Hillside to lay to rest Marine Corps Sgt. Robert F ...

His design was criticized as banal and beneath its subject. It was also praised for fitting seamlessly into hallowed space on ...

It was a day the family of Marine Sergeant Robert Van Heck always hoped for, but struggled to believe would ever happen.

Central Texas has a new centenarian, and it’s World War II veteran Morris Barker, who got quite the surprise from family and ...

The leader of Austria’s Freedom Party received a mandate Monday to form a new government, which would be the first headed by ...

Graham argues that scholars of the humanities contributed to victory in World War II by transforming the practice of intelligence agencies.

The following day, New Year’s Day 1945, Hartzell battled Nazi soldiers for control of the Belgian town of Chenogne. In the ...

The Wisconsin Maritime Museum is home to the USS "Cobia," a 312-foot-long vessel that completed six war patrols during World ...

Robert Van Heck's family receieved an ominous letter from the Marine just minutes before learning he was killed, according to a news article.

Nassau County is set to remember the end of World War II 80 years ago with a number of celebrations.

Grunewald significantly enhances understandings of the fate of Germans captured by the Soviet Union during World War II.