Jack Beritzhoff will be 97 next month — a man with a ton of stories about his days at sea in two wars, as a businessman in San Francisco and in his home high in the hills of Marin. “It was a life of ...

Alice Beck was a 23-year-old Navy nurse at a West Coast hospital in 1942 when she began caring for a sailor with a most unusual wound: a bullet in his heart.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Thursday, August 14, marks the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, when President Harry Truman announced Japan’s intention to surrender. While the day for some in East Tennessee ...

World War II was a tumultuous time that saw combat in both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Despite how large the planet is, a war that involved every major nation made it seem that much smaller, and ...