U.S. News Insider Tip: While it's pretty during the day, the memorial is incomparable at night. Visit after sunset. – Marisa Méndez, Senior Editor The World War II Memorial was dedicated in ...

World War II veterans are described as “The Greatest Generation” because of their courage, patriotism and strength in the ...

World War II Pfc. Roland L. Bragg lived in Maine until his 1999 death and is remembered as a hero. He replaces the fort's ...

I was willing to accept that in order to go ahead and get my wings," Stewart told Friends of the National World War II Memorial in a 2024 interview. "That was the prize as far as I was concerned.

The following day, Japanese forces lost one of the world’s two biggest battleships ... Still, the crew of No. 2 aft gun turret fired off six more shells at the enemy before leaving their ...

The 26-year-old U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sergeant, Eugene J. Darrigan — a World War II airman who was a resident of the ...

Craig Plummer first saw the “Remembering Our Fallen” memorial last year while he was in Sturgis, South Dakota, with his brother. A few months later, Plummer’s brother told him that ...

It’s a location, he said, where a variety of services, from Memorial Day to Veterans Day, are held. His parents both fought in World War II, and there are a number of names on the plaques that ...

Amelia Neath looks at some of the dark places people are drawn to where tragedies have occurred, such as Chernobyl, Hiroshima and the killing fields in Cambodia ...

In a Cape Town memorial opened Wednesday, African "iroko" hardwood posts bear the names and the date of death of 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combatant roles in WWI.

Praise poets honour the servicemen, more than a century after World War One ... each serviceman's name at the new memorial. Princess Anne, president of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission ...