A World War II veteran from Brockton died last month with no known living relatives, and police in that city are working to make sure his sacrifice is not forgotten.

More than 3,000 people on Guam are expecting to get long-awaited compensation from the U.S. government for their suffering at the hands of imperial Japan during World War II.

Somerville’s Peter Fantasia had earned half a dozen medals but never received them.

A nearly 100-year-old United States Army veteran, who was once a bank executive but now works as a part-time grocery store cashier in Massachusetts, was honored Friday for his selfless service in World War II.

A 95-year-old World War II Veteran was honored for his service Friday at a Shop & Shop in Braintree, Massachusetts, where he has been a cashier for more than two decades.

New U.S. Navy submarines will revive the names of the USS Arizona and USS Oklahoma, two of the biggest casualties of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II, officials said. Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly announced nuclear, Virginia-class attack submarines will carry the names, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Monday. The battleships were badly damaged...

As a schoolboy three quarters of a century ago, Marcel Schmetz would regularly see open trucks rumble past to a makeshift American cemetery — filled with bodies, some headless, some limbless, blood seeping from the vehicles onto the roads that the U.S. soldiers had given their lives to liberate. Sometimes, Schmetz said, there were over 200 bodies a day, casualties…

A crew of deep-sea explorers and historians looking for lost World War II warships have found a second Japanese aircraft carrier that went down in the historic Battle of Midway. Vulcan Inc.’s director of undersea operations Rob Kraft and Naval History and Heritage Command historian Frank Thompson reviewed high frequency sonar images of the warship Sunday and said that its...

A World War II veteran who was taken as a prisoner of war in Germany in 1945 and later escaped is going to be honored posthumously in New Hampshire. The Purple Heart and Prisoner of War medals will be presented to the family of Lawrence Minnehan on Tuesday.

Seven people are dead and eight others injured after a vintage Boeing B17 aircraft crashed Wednesday morning at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Connecticut.

Hundreds turned out Friday to honor a decorated World War II Marine in New York after a young friend ensured the 97-year-old’s life and death did not go unrecognized.

A decorated World War II veteran who died this month with no living relatives is being honored by strangers around the world thanks to an unlikely friendship with a young woman determined to give him a hero’s farewell.

A 94-year-old World War II veteran has received his high school diploma — 74 years after he would have gotten had he not enlisted.

A 94-year-old World War II veteran has received his high school diploma — 74 years after he would have gotten had he not enlisted.

The search is on for a vandal who defaced a World War II memorial with what is believed to be oil over the weekend in South Boston. State police received a call of the vandalism at about 11:30 a.m. on Monday and found an unknown substance splashed onto the memorial stones. Officials believe oil may have been poured over the...

The search is on for a vandal who defaced a World War II memorial with what is believed to be oil over the weekend in South Boston. State police received a call of the vandalism at about 11:30 a.m. on Monday and found an unknown substance splashed onto the memorial stones. Officials believe oil may have been poured over the...

The vandalism of a World War II memorial in South Boston hits especially close to home for the family of one of monument’s creators. World War II veteran John Mullen, who helped to build the memorial in South Boston, died Monday, the same day its defacement was discovered.

The search is on for a vandal who defaced a World War II memorial with what is believed to be oil over the weekend in South Boston. State police received a call of the vandalism at about 11:30 a.m. on Monday and found an unknown substance splashed onto the memorial stones. Officials believe oil may have been poured over the...

Restoration experts are set to try to restore a World War II memorial that was vandalized in South Boston. Meanwhile, officials are continuing their search for the person responsible.

Volunteers in Massachusetts showed up to pay their respects to a fallen World War II veteran who died without any living family members left. Veteran James McCue died Thursday at Cedar View Rehabilitation and Health Care Center at the age of 97. He died without any surviving family members, leaving him without anyone to attend his funeral.