Jake Larson and his U.S. military unit stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944. He went viral on TikTok — where he was known as ...

Beloved TikTok star 'Papa Jake' Larson died at age 102, leaving behind a legacy as a World War II veteran and inspiring ...

Carlsbad’s Nancy Stratford, now 106, is the last survivor of the 25 American women pilots who served in the Royal Air Force’s ...

Jake Larson, the World War II veteran and social media star known as “Papa Jake,” has died, his granddaughter posted on his ...

In the bitter winter of 1941, British military prisoners in Nazi-occupied Germany huddled around a Monopoly set, dazzled by ...

A Woonsocket native who was wounded driving a boat full of soldiers onto Omaha Beach on D-Day will receive an award the World ...

World War II veteran and longtime Elsmere resident Ray Firmani, whose life was chronicled and celebrated in the book Against ...

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ...

Photos show the USS Laffey still sitting upright on the seafloor with much of her bow and midsection intact despite more than ...

Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.

The Rapid City Journal is partnering with the Veterans Honor Banner Project and the America 250 Project to publish stories on ...