They emerged from bloody battles with shattered bones, lost limbs, scars and, for some, emotional wounds that would last a ...

Robert W. Boynton, 19, a West Aurora High School graduate, was murdered after his plane was shot down in Germany in 1944.

Boasting a 51-year career, the U.S.S. Missouri initially launched from the Naval Shipyard in Brooklyn in 1944.

"I thought I'd like to get a boat out of the sub base," he said ... The Sealion would become the only submarine to sink a military ship in World War II, he said. The war ended while the Sealion was in ...

At 104 years old, the names, times and places are sometimes hard to recall. Often the names of friends he served with and the places he saw while serving come with ease, like a laugh with those ...

After a week-long train ride across the United States from Florida to San Francisco, Robert "Bob" Chamberlin, 100, remembered the first time he set eyes on the USS Louisville. It was the ship he ...

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