Army Maj. James J. O’Donovan, a native of Cohoes, was finally laid to rest 80 years after he died in a prisoner of war camp ...

Gulf Breeze resident Army Private First Class Arthur Lynch, 99, one of the dwindling number of remaining WWII veterans, ...

Jack Dougherty was just 21 years old in 1945 when he and fellow soldiers came across something they could not fathom — the ...

Hilbert Margol still regularly speaks about the atrocities he saw firsthand at the notorious Nazi concentration camp as a ...

Recently I went to Dachau, just outside of Munich, to see a real concentration camp. The first thing you notice is the irony. The people who, in too loud voices, mill around the station entrance ...

Gen. George Patton gave the Thunderbirds high praise, saying "the 45th Infantry Division is one of the best, if not the best..." ...

Jack Dougherty, a World War II veteran who lived in Lakewood, recounted his experience liberating Dachau concentration camp in a written transcript. Dougherty's wife, Barbara, encouraged him to ...

The liberation of Dachau occurred on April 29, 1945, when U.S. Army forces moved in on the camp northwest of Munich in beautiful Bavaria. German officers knew the camp − and the German war ...