Among the weathered and once-cracked headstones in Michigan’s historic Brighton Village Cemetery, the dual grave markers for Lt. Col. John Gilluly stand out. It was a late summer day when I was drawn ...

If the trenches were the defining combat element of the First World War, then surely air power was the defining element in Second. Previously, air power primarily served to support the army and navy, ...

For 80 years, the family of Steward’s Mate 1st Class William Arthur Brown has wondered what really happened to him during ...

Herman Spoede never returned from a flight 68 years ago. Aug. 1, 2011— -- Lt. John Ramsay was an intelligence officer with a love of painting during World War II. He was sketching a Corsair plane ...

Seventy-eight years after an American soldier picked it from a dead German soldier in Germany, the 1942 New Hanover High School class ring of graduate Mary Silvia Allen returned to the school. An Army ...

Descendants of Civil War casualty John Miller gather at Shawnee Cemetery in Plymouth to dedicate a marker in his honor. From left are Sheree Harding Puccio, Helen Renee (Miller) Whitaker, Mary Beth ...

Reports on bombings in Syria these days have become routine. But when Mohammad Sabbagh, an industrialist from Aleppo, heard about the attack near his hometown on March 19, the details stopped him cold ...

At 3 a.m. on Nov. 7, 1972, the day President Richard Nixon would be reelected, Steve Morrissey was awakened by noises at the front door. Steve’s 17-year-old brother, Dave, their mom and the rest of ...

The engagement that dominates Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "A Very Long Engagement" isn't the one that betroths Mathilde to Manech, but the one that separates them: World War I. That engagement, very long ...

A nearly 200-year-old missing-person case has been solved by the Niagara County historian's office. Historian Catherine L. Emerson told the County Legislature this week that she and her staff have ...