During WWII, over 2.5 million African American men registered for the draft. This Black History Month, we're taking a glimpse into the words of one Black soldier who defended his country.

After decades of discrimination, Vernon Baker was finally recognized for his heroism during an assault on a German stronghold ...

A soldier who went missing in action during an aquatic mission in World War II has been accounted for, military officials ...

A soldier who went missing in action ... on the Walls of the Missing at the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery in Nettuno, Italy. After World War II, the American Graves Registration began working ...

Several weeks earlier, the Palawan Massacre took place in the Philippines, where 139 American POWs were killed by Japanese ...

Jan. 29 Chip Somodevilla/Getty Three American soldiers were on board an Army aircraft that collided with an American Airlines airplane over Washington, D.C. Their current condition is unknown.

Laura and Robert Dunne are parting ways with their beloved 18th-century home — a timber-frame house built in the 1770s by a soldier who fought under George Washington during the American Revolution.

“Recording Evil” reveals the candid conversations of Nazi officers and soldiers held as prisoners of war during WWII. Unaware of hidden listening devices in British internment ...

Feb 1 (Reuters) - The U.S. Army on Saturday released the name of the third soldier who died on a Black Hawk helicopter that collided with an American Airlines passenger jet near Ronald Reagan ...

National World War II Museum visitors can learn about the contributions, struggles and victories of Black Americans during the war.

One of the soldiers is a convinced noninterventionist; his superior officer is convinced of the United States’s Manifest Destiny, or inevitable ability and right to rule the American West.

A total of 64 people, including four crew members, were aboard passenger American Airlines Flight 5342, and three soldiers were on the Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk that came from Fort Belvoir in ...