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.

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…

Having your personal property stolen is bad enough, but for a local author, the contents of a backpack are more than just a laptop and other assorted items. The backpack contained a lifetime’s worth of priceless memories. Tony Lifonti of Glenbard North arrived at a West Town restaurant just before 8 p.m. on Monday, and he made the fateful...

A love story for the ages, a war hero, and a backpack full of memories, all stolen. A man is making an emotional plea tonight for help and he shared his story with our Natalie Martinez.

A team of recovery experts is on a race against time to save World War II era aircraft resting off the shore of Chicago in Lake Michigan.

A team of recovery experts is on a race against time to save World War II era aircraft resting off the shore of Chicago in Lake Michigan. 

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...

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.

This month, 93-year-old WWII veteran Herbert Krueger from Iowa finally got all the medals he was awarded during his service. Krueger earned 15 medals for playing a key role in stopping an attack in Italy, but only received the Bronze Star. He sent his discharge papers to his senator after seeing stories of other aging veterans getting their long overdue...