I recently discovered a World War II commando who was an unsung action hero — Irishman Lt. Col. Robert “Paddy” Mayne, one of the most decorated British Army officers of the war. Born in 1915 to a ...

With a dash of good humor, World War II commando Bert Winzer described the day he was wounded in battle. “It was an international incident. German artillery fire from Italy into France hit me, an ...

PARIS — Leon Gautier, the last surviving member of an elite French unit that joined U.S. and other Allied forces in the D-Day invasion to wrest Normandy from Nazi control, has died. He was 100. The ...

On Sept. 2, 1945, the official end of World War II came to pass with Japan’s signing of the Instrument of Surrender aboard the battleship USS Missouri.