Operation Varsity "was the battle that ended" World War Two in Europe, yet it is largely unknown to all but military history ...

As a volunteer cave digger, Takamatsu Gushiken has unearthed the remains of several hundred people. Excavation is not his ...

Pfc. Frederick Rickard's death on Iwo Jima was the family's second tragedy in four months. His brother died in a Christmas ...

80 years ago, American and Japanese troops were locked in one of the fiercest and bloodiest battles of the Pacific theatre in ...

Day was crucial for the linking of the Utah and Omaha Beach Bridgeheads. However, without the capture of strategic locations ...

Takamatsu Gushiken has spent years voluntarily locating bodies, and fragments of bodies, of World War II victims in Japan’s Okinawa's jungle. Over 80 years since a major battle, Gushiken shared ...

Athens resident Rodney Davis will speak on a WWII battle this Saturday as he shares his knowledge of the famous conflict.

The San Antonio-based nonprofit Walk Among Heroes made arrangements for Boldt and a handful of other World War II vets to revisit the sites of battles they’d survived 80 years ago. Boldt’s ...

An Okinawan Bone Digger Searches for Remains From One of the Fiercest Battles of World War II ITOMAN, Japan (AP) — Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headtorch and enters a cave buried in Okinawa's ...

Rodney Davis, an Athens man who has studied and visited numerous sites of World War II, will speak on the Battle of Midway at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Oconee County Library, located in Wire Park off ...