Yet on Tuesday, hundreds of people gathered at the graveside of World War II veteran Stephen Kolesnik Jr. and watched him laid to rest. The U.S. Navy veteran died Dec. 1 in hospice care at age 97, ...

Of the 16 million Americans who served in the military during World War II, just 70,000 are still alive. Four of these ...

D-Day veteran Jake Larson, a 102-year-old who is also a star on TikTok, with 1.2 million followers, greets schoolchildren during a visit Monday, June 2, 2025 in Colleville-sur-Mer, to the Normandy ...

Hadley resident Stanley Fil, 103, at the Pulaski Day celebration in Northampton last fall. Fil is one of the few remaining World War II veterans in western Massachusetts, and Central Hampshire ...

World War II ended 80 years ago, and while many veterans have passed, a few still reside in Southwest Florida. Of the more than 16 million men and women who served in World War II, only about 55,000 ...

McCOOK, Neb. (AP) -- The three Mitchem brothers may be a true rarity. The three, now in their 80s and 90s, all served in World War II, even as increasingly fewer veterans of that era are still living.

World War II veteran Wilbur "Jack" Myers, a 101-year-old who fought in the U.S. Army's 692nd Tank Destroyer Battalion, hands a souvenir postcard of himself to Ryan, a young French boy, on Monday, June ...

OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — The D-Day generation, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 years ago. World War II veterans, now mostly ...