Three generations of a Dutch family have been the caretakers of an American soldier’s grave since 1945 — and promise future descendants will do the same. Ernest Francis Fichtl Jr., from the Little ...

For three days, soldiers of the 7th Cavalry Regiment poured rifle and machine gun fire into the twin tunnels. Families huddled behind walls of corpses. Mothers shielded their children with their ...

John Monsky details the history of the Unknown Soldier and the origins of Veterans Day. The U.S. takes no territory in WWI, only leases for nine cemeteries for the American dead. Each grave has a ...

The Belgian troopship SS Léopoldville had just slipped beneath the English Channel after being hit by a torpedo. Gerald Howard went down with the ship. The 23-year-old rifleman nearly drowned under ...