Pvt. Willard D. Merrill died as a prisoner of war after he was among those captured when U.S. forces in Bataan, Philippines, surrendered to the Japanese.

The remains of two U.S. Army Air Forces soldiers killed during World War II, Sgt. R. L. Tyler and Staff Sgt. Hubert Yeary, ...

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff A Dover-Foxcroft soldier who died during World War II after the Imperial ...

The remains of a soldier from Maine who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II have finally been ...

Then 21-year-old US Army Private Willard Merrill was captured by Japanese forces in 1942 while fighting in the Philippines ...

A landscaper working on a historical film about the Battle of Okinawa uncovered human remains last summer on Ie Shima, ...

A special exhibit aboard the battleship USS Missouri has a heart-wrenching perspective on what it is like for a fighter pilot preparing to die for his country.

Submarines were a big part of the World War II effort, especially for the United States Navy. One sub, the USS Grayback, has ...

U.S. Army Private James Stanley Mitchell, who died as a Prisoner of War at a Japanese prison camp in 1943, will have his remains returned to Hamilton City and Chico ...