Robert W. Boynton, 19, a West Aurora High School graduate, was murdered after his plane was shot down in Germany in 1944.

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During World War II, the Italian prisoners of war built their own chapel at Camp Atterbury. The structure still stands today.

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He returned to Pigeon Falls after the war and never thought he'd go back to Europe. But just before the 80th anniversary of D ...

Peter Ferdinand Jr. will tell of his father’s survival in a World War II plane crash during a veteran’s program at the ...

Here, Josh Levine, author of The Secret History of the Blitz and a consultant on the film, talks to TIME about the hardships ...

Ralph Bode from Racine was laid to rest Sept. 27, 2024, exactly 80 years after German fighters shot his plane down in World ...

Thirty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall: Find out more about German reunification and win a DW Travel Kit! Democracy and freedom prevailed on one side of the German-German border ...

Francis Houlihan, small town Iowa grocery man, only five years removed from his high school graduation, found himself 85 ...

SCHENECTADY — The remains of a World War II airman who died in a doomed mission ... and only four were able to land back at their bases in England. Of the 238 men on the 25 bombers that crashed in ...

Each year on Aug. 12, a small community in France holds a memorial ceremony to thank a Dixon man, an American soldier who was killed overseas during World War II while fighting to secure their freedom ...