Whenever Britain faced conflict - from early invasions by the Celts and Romans to WWII when skies were criss-crossed with ...

A German U-boat sunk the USAT Dorchester on Feb. 3, 1943, in the North Atlantic Ocean, killing 672 of the 902 servicemen, ...

Petrified wood is one of the most sought-after materials in the world for both its aesthetic value and its scientific value.

At just 17 years old, Joseph Coy left Pittsfield High School to enlist in the Navy, serving on Utah Beach on D-Day and later ...

When he was 19 years old, Joseph B. “Ben” Miller landed at Normandy on D-Day in a paraglider. Eighty years later, he visited ...

West Palm Beach centenarian Franklin Simon, who celebrated his 100th birthday in June, served heroically in Europe during ...

These restaurants have stayed in business for decades, and they all have interesting histories as their backstories.

As part of a strategy to liberate Italy from the Nazis during World War II, the Allies sent an invasion force of 36,000 ...

Jim Mardin was about to dig into a heaping slice of cake at his 103rd birthday party when a voice shouted out for him to stop. "Everybody come on! We've got to sing happy birthday," Mardin's friend ...

From a crumbling pill box in the UK to a derelict rail line in Hawaii, these are the abandoned World War II places that the ...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (WPVI) -- The Lehigh Valley has lost its last known living D-Day Veteran. Richard Schermerhorn died a few ...

The World War II veteran served in the army. His oldest daughter, Nancy Moats, told 69 News Schermerhorn was just 22 when he ...