When Italian-born Pietro Verazzi was captured by the Australian army in North Africa, his life would change course forever.

Tens of thousands of prisoners of war captured by Australian and Allied troops during WW2 were shipped to Australia. For ...

Artist Claire Eason, who created the poppy light display, said when the Aurora Borealis unexpectedly appeared, it felt as ...

Robert W. Boynton, 19, a West Aurora High School graduate, was murdered after his plane was shot down in Germany in 1944.

Less than one percent of the 16 million Americans who served in WWII are still alive today, and that includes a 103-year-old prisoner of war in the Town of Tonawanda. “We were told growing up, never ...

He held pop-up services in fields and nursed injured comrades but was also a witness as the SAS headed into Belsen camp to ...

Of the 16 million men and women who served in the American armed forces during World War II, less than 1% are still alive ...

Gerri Eisenhauer's father, Army Pvt. William Walters, was shipped off to World War II before she was even born. In 1944, her ...

Morton Katz of Hartford, a 105-year-old WWII veteran, tells of indelible sights he saw from N. Africa to Italy, France, and ...

"More than a third of the 18,000 B-24 bombers produced during World War II were shot down, and most air crewmen did not ...

At 104 years old, the names, times and places are sometimes hard to recall. Often the names of friends he served with and the places he saw while serving come with ease, like a laugh with those ...