At 100 years old, World War II veteran Ben Lafon can still recall his journey from a Texas farm boy to a sergeant in the U.S.

The horrors of World War II have served as the basis of some of cinema's most gripping historical dramas, from The Bridge on ...

A 79-year-old grandfather found himself in legal limbo in the Alligator Alcatraz detention camp in the Everglades, picked up on a decades-old deportation order authorities had previously chosen ...

In 2011 he came across an article by Jack El-Hai that was to be the basis for El-Hai’s book about the relationship between ...

A new film, starring Russell Crowe and Rami Malek, dramatises the Allies’ postwar quest to hold the surviving leaders of the ...

Oscar Primm, a 104-year-old veteran of World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, will receive the Lifetime American ...

John Newell recalled a time when his parents’ truck broke down on a camping trip and his father, Arthur M. Newell, used equal ...

More than 14 U.S. Army and Marine divisions never landed on X-Day of Operation Downfall, the planned invasion of Japan to end ...

This changed after World War II, when President Harry Truman pushed to bring in approximately 400,000 displaced refugees from ...

A crew had just watched their bombs drop over Kyushu, Japan when flak hit their aircraft and an engine caught fire.

John Q. Barrett, who likely knows more than anyone about Albany Law graduate and Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, the ...

It’s hard, in today’s “Pax Americana,” it’s hard to understand the desperation that existed in so much of the world at the ...