A humble World War II veteran who died more than 40 years ago is about to be awarded the nation's highest honor.

Ray Curtis, North Dakota’s oldest living World War II veteran and a retired farmer, is celebrating his 109th birthday today, Feb. 11. Curtis, who served in the U.S. Army for five years, including ...

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World War II veterans Robert Miller and Willard Smith found each other in the same assisted living facility 82 years after fighting in the Battle of Luzon.

BERKS COUNTY, Pa. (WPVI) - A 99-year-old World War II veteran recently returned to Germany to the site where he lost his hand decades ago. The trip was all thanks to a Pennsylvania college student ...

A number of Indigenous WWI soldiers pose for a photo at Camp Devens, Massachusetts. (Indiana University Archaeology and Anthropology Museum) “I’m so thankful that his blood runs in our veins,” said ...

Editor's note: In mid-November, the author will be discontinuing this weekly feature on veterans. In the years prior to World War I, Harry Blackwell finished his high school education and began ...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Feb. 28, 2011) -- America's last known World War I veteran, Cpl. Frank Buckles, died Sunday at the age of 110. Buckles died of natural causes at his home in Charles Town ...

“I’m so thankful that his blood runs in our veins,” said Tewanna Anderson-Edwards of her great uncle Otis W. Leader, a World War I Choctaw code talker. Leader, a corporal in the Army’s 16th Infantry ...