Gen. John Pershing would officially designate Gunther as the last American soldier killed in World War I. He was one of approximately 2,750 men who died that morning — casualties of the six-hour ...

Rochester resident Helen McCracken experienced a jolt of recognition from an unexpected source recently. Leafing through the Post-Bulletin, McCracken found herself looking at a photo of a familiar ...

Sharecroppers, pastors and sawmill workers from South Carolina who'd been drafted into the Army and shaped into soldiers were at the bottom of Hill 188. German machine guns and troops were entrenched ...

William Seegers, a former German soldier who was the last surviving World War I veteran in California, died July 10 at the age of 106. Mr. Seegers, a Richmond resident who would have been 107 in ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla — It’s a heavy burden to remember, but the laminated pages in Jack Romberg's archives carry the weight. “Richard Stern is my ... was my great uncle," Romberg said. “He was a hero for ...

A trove of letters penned by Lester Harper, a farmer from northern B.C. who fought on the front lines in the First World War, ...

From Cork to the Western Front his fearlessness took him from a Saskatchewan shootout to the Victoria Cross. Here we explore ...

As nations across the globe observe Remembrance Day, also known as Armistice Day or Veterans Day, the specter of new conflict ...