William "Bill" Gosch, a World War II veteran and lifelong North Tonawanda resident, celebrated his 102nd birthday at a surprise party at the Buffalo VA Medical Center.

The living family members of Pfc. Lawrence R. Beard still have the original Western Union telegrams from 1942 informing them ...

Dr. Masao Tomonaga was two years old when he survived the 1945 atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki. Today, he and other survivors ...

The Bowling Green State University History Department will welcome Amazon #1 best-selling author Edmund “Ed” Kruszynski as ...

War brings out both the worst and the wildest in people, and no conflict produced stranger heroes than World War II. From a U ...

Following John Ficarra’s Nov. 11 op-ed, “My colleague at Mad magazine was a war hero. Who knew?” — Post Opinions asked ...

As a medic, he saved soldiers from drowning off Omaha Beach on D-Day before becoming a prisoner of war. Back home, a ...

A 23-year-old German lieutenant heard a wounded American soldier crying for help in a minefield on Nov. 12, 1944. Lt.

D-Day veteran Charles Shay was awarded the Silver Star for repeatedly plunging into the sea and carrying critically wounded ...

Charles Norman Shay, a Native American who risked his life to save “countless” fellow soldiers during the D-Day landings near ...