In the wee hours of September 5, 1942, Japanese destroyers sank the USS Gregory in the Southwest Pacific. Mess Attendant 1st Class Charles Jackson French immediately began piling as many wounded men ...

Routine sonar investigations of the French seafloor led to the accidental discovery of a 16 th- century shipwreck roughly 1.5 ...

Coalition carries out marathon talks aimed at delaying preliminary vote tonight to dissolve Knesset * Netanyahu said to ask ...

Amid parliamentary deadlock, the politics of remembrance has gained momentum in France. Three new initiatives attempt to ...

Archaeologists in Senegal have uncovered skeletons with bullets lodged in the bodies during the first excavation of a ...

Excavations at the Thiaroye military cemetery began in early May. These are aimed at shedding light on the events of 1 December, 1944, when African riflemen who had fought for France during the ...

Amid this inferno, 20-year-old Utah native Donald William Pullan – assigned to the 911th Air Engineering Squadron – arrived four days after D-Day, jumping into waist-deep water, his boots sinking into ...

Traditionally, the U.S. marker is symbolically on the right side – as if it were in the soldier’s right hand and facing home. The French will be on the left – always toward inland territory.

(Courtesy of Shaun Nadolny) An American and French flag – standing about knee high – will be placed in front of the grave. Traditionally, the U.S. marker is symbolically on the right side – as if it ...