The Underground Railroad was known for helping many enslaved people escape to freedom. It consisted of a network of people ...

COMMENTARY: The Feb. 13-15, 1945, firebombing of the eastern German city symbolizes the brutality of World War II.

Villanova coach Ed Geisz engaged in a heroic act during World War II, leading to General George Patton handing Geisz the ...

Bragg, a building mover and sawmill operator from Sabbatus, Maine, was an Army paratrooper with the 17th Airborne Division in ...

Historians and experts, along with the film's star and director, discuss how accurate the Oscars' best picture favourite The ...

The Pennsylvania Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home commemorated the saga of the four chaplains Monday morning, which surrounds the ...

During the panic of the disaster, the four chaplains organized evacuees, distributed life jackets from storage, and tended to ...

A German U-boat sunk the USAT Dorchester on Feb. 3, 1943, in the North Atlantic Ocean, killing 672 of the 902 servicemen, ...

UPDATE: Seven people have been confirmed dead in the medevac plane crash in Philadelphia, including one person who was on the ground. "We can officially disclose 6 perished in the plane," the city's ...

Brazil was the only South American country to send troops overseas in World War II. Throughout the Battle of the Atlantic, German U-boats patrolled Brazil’s coast, sinking some 34 vessels and ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — It is a reunion 80 years in the making. During World War II, Earl L. McCorkle from Elizabeth, Pennsylvania, was fighting the Germans while trying to cross the Rhine River.

A Pennsylvania centenarian who served and was injured in World War II received a Purple Heart just days short of him turning 101 years old. Sgt. Harold “Bud” Pressel, of York County, received the ...