Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Of the more than 11 million American armed service members who served during World War II, only about 66,000 are still alive today ...

At 106, Joseph Williams still takes life one day at a time, watching cars speed by from his front porch, sharing stories of a world he helped shape – and reminding anyone who’ll listen what it was ...

At some point during the hours that followed, Wilfred Wallace's mind stopped reeling just long enough for him to remember what day it was: July 30. His birthday. The young Navy seaman was now 20 years ...

Centenarian Steve Ellis was barely 16 when he joined the Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) at Tulane University—months before the U.S. entered World War II. Before that leap, the Louisiana ...

Following the Second World War, many Nazis fled to Latin America or were recruited by foreign powers. Throughout the post-war decades, the media would occasionally explode with a captivating and ...