On July 28, 1942, U.S. Army Sgt. George Frank Bishop died at the Japanese Cabanatuan POW Camp in the Philippines. Bishop’s body was buried with thousands of others in one of the camp’s mass graves. Bishop’s remains were identified in June 2023, and he is to be buried in Washington state in May.

Elyria native and 2nd Lt. Ferrier White, a Tuskegee Airman who lost his life during World War II, was honored April 5 with a street sign at the corner of South Maple Street and Oberlin Road in Elyria, exactly 79 years after this death.

Retired Army Maj. Larry Moores has received the Silver Star Medal for valor in combat more than 30 years after his actions in the infamous 1993 Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia — the battle made famous by the 2001 film “Black Hawk Down.”

Melvin Kealoha Bell, who served as the first person of color to achieve the rank of Master Chief in the combined sea services, was honored at the Coast Guard Academy at the ship’s commissioning on March 28.

U.S. Army Sgt. John O. Herrick, who was just 19 when he was killed on June 6, 1944, is coming home to Emporia, Kan.

A home away from home may sound a bit trite but it describes the situation of 27 American girls and boys — dependents of U.S. Army officers and civilian personnel in Pusan, Taegu and Uijongbu — at Pomeroy Hall.

Seoul, South Korea, December 1960: Robert Harilee vacuums his room at Pomeroy Hall. The 17-year-old lived with 11 girls and 15 boys in Pomeroy Hall while attending nearby American High School on the Seoul Area South Command Post.

Lou Conter, the last living survivor of the USS Arizona, which sank during the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor and has become the site of a memorial visited by millions each year, died Monday morning at his home in Grass Valley, Calif. He was 102.

U.S. Navy Mess Attendant 3rd Class David Walker, 19, of Norfolk, Va., was accounted for Nov. 27, 2023, and U.S. Army Cpl. Frank V. Benak, 24, of Scottsville, Mich., was accounted for Feb. 2, the DPAA announced.

As the Battleship New Jersey sits in the dry dock at the Philadelphia Navy Yard for the next two months undergoing maintenance, the public will be able to tour underneath the iconic vessel for the first time in its long history.

For a new exhibit, the museum used artificial intelligence and voice-recognition software to index memories in a way that will allow visitors to “converse” with World War II-era Americans for decades to come.

Frankfurt, Germany, March 20, 1996: Lenny Kravitz performs in concert at the Festhalle.

California legislators plan to introduce a bill Thursday that would bolster efforts by Holocaust survivors, their heirs and other victims to recover artwork and other property stolen from them as a result of political persecution.

Army Pfc. Raymond U. Schlamp, who was killed during the fighting at “Horseshoe Woods” in 1944, will be laid to rest April 6 in his hometown of Dubuque, Iowa.

The U.S. military recently teamed up with the FBI and the Smithsonian Institution to return 22 artworks and other items missing since World War II to Okinawa. The return of the artifacts, believed to have been looted by U.S. troops, has rekindled interest in other treasures lost during the Battle of Okinawa nearly 80 years ago.

A memorial honoring a U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division offensive in World War II to break through German lines in a series of battles in 1943 and 1944 was unveiled this week.

Army Cpl. Julius G. Wolfe, killed on D-Day off the coast of France, will be laid to rest April 5 in his hometown of Liberal, Mo.

The remains of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Leroy C. Cloud, who was killed during World War II, will be interred April 6 at Taylor City Cemetery in Taylor, Texas.

A World War II-era ship born along the Napa River and tested in harrowing Navy and Coast Guard missions by the dozens looks to have a better future than the scrap heap.