Pvt. James C. Loyd disappeared during a nighttime firefight days after the Allied Forces landed near Anzio, Italy, in 1944.

Marvin Strombo, a United States Marine who as a young man on war-torn islands of the Pacific saw humanity at its worst and journeyed to Japan at age 93 to display it at its best, died Tuesday night.

Bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater approaches her first adult novel with the same literary finesse as her previous work ...

The World War II veteran, who turned 96 on March 14 ... before making its way to the Gilbert Islands for the Battle of Tarawa. One morning before the battle, Bomersback recalls an armada of ...

The types of books she often writes—historical novels about bombings, spies and young resistance fighters in World War II—have become some of the hottest novels with young readers starting ...

Japanese warplanes indiscriminately bombed Chongqing, then China's provisional capital, and nearby cities more than 250 times between 1938 and 1944, killing and injuring more than 32,000 people.

Authors Michael Dobrin and Jerry Eppler tell their family stories intertwined with the development of a federal aviation ...

He received World War II books, even though he can’t read the ones written in Czech. The Embassy is mailing him a U.S. flag that flew there May 6, the 80th anniversary of U.S. troops liberating ...

James "Jimmy" Twedt, a 17-year-old from Roland, Iowa, was killed in action during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. Twedt ... were eventually sent to Camp Tarawa in Hawaii, near Hilo ...