During the panic of the disaster, the four chaplains organized evacuees, distributed life jackets from storage, and tended to ...

Organizers of the region’s biannual Chapel of Four Chaplains ceremonies, honoring four religious leaders who sacrificed their ...

Feb. 3 is the 82nd anniversary of the sinking of the USAT Dorchester in the north Atlantic Ocean by a German U-boat.

Among the many tragedies that occurred during World War II, the 1943 sinking of the USAT Dorchester stands out for the show of unity and courage it spurred: the sight ...

Battalion Sgt. Major James Mardin, a World War II veteran, walked into the Maine Military Museum to a cake for his 103rd ...

Pfc. Duane Tunnyhill of Omaha was ready to die with his fellow Marines at Iwo Jima. He survived and lived another 80 years to become the last man ...

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

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 ...

Battalion Sgt. Major James Mardin is still telling war stories more than 80 years after he arrived in Normandy, six days after D-Day.

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 ...

World War II veteran Dick Schermerhorn, who cleared mines on a Normandy beach during the D-Day assault, died Tuesday. At 102, ...

By KTBS Staff Click here for updates on this story SHREVEPORT, Louisiana (KTBS) — The ArkLaTex recently lost another hero.