Polk now refers to a General James H. Polk, a World War II cavalryman who became a commander of U.S. Army Europe.

After 80 years, researchers located the bow of USS New Orleans torn off by a Japanese torpedo during a 1942 WWII naval battle ...

FORT POLK - In a ceremony Friday at the Fort Polk Joint Readiness Training Center, the Vernon Parish Army base was ...

The unit of 855 Black women was celebrated for clearing a massive backlog of undelivered mail for American service members.

"To have him return back to San Francisco to be buried at the Presidio in the last place he saw before he left America (is) ...

The USS New Orleans was at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and responded to the Japanese air attack. Later, the vessel pulled ...

Thousands of people from Bosnia and around the world are gathering in Srebrenica to mark the 30th anniversary of the massacre ...

A Japanese torpedo slammed into the USS New Orleans in 1942, tearing off nearly one-third of the ship and killing over 180 ...

In the book “Monopoly X,” Philip E. Orbanes tells the true story of how a doctored version of the classic board game was used ...

Working on the Home Front, 1942–1945." exhibit features a collection of about 50 black-and-white photographs of wartime ...

HONOLULU ( HawaiiNewsNow /Gray News) – An 8-year-old boy was critically injured after falling into a WWII-era bunker in ...