Nearly every major military had access to some form of body armor during World War II, yet it remained remarkably uncommon ...

The body of Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb commander who died while serving a life sentence for war crimes, lay in state on ...

An MG42 spare barrel was uncovered shallow in the ground during a metal detecting search in a wartime area. The find suggests ...

The Navy veteran’s body was found with two bullet wounds to the head in Oregon in the ’70s. Investigators were able to identify the remains decades later thanks to a family member’s ancestry test.

Aug. 8 (Asia Today) --Rick Downes and Donna Knox have spent more than seven decades waiting for answers about their father, U.S. Air Force 2nd Lt. Harold W. Downes Jr., who disappeared during a ...

A man’s body was recovered from a partially submerged vehicle in Lake Nelson on Monday, Nelson County Sheriff’s Office said.

Narragansett pilot Frank McKinney disappeared without a trace on a mapping mission in 1944. On Aug. 28, he finally came home, ...

Sudanese armed forces have discovered at least 25 bodies in a mass grave in the southeastern Blue Nile State, with local officials accusing the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of carrying out ...

The bodies of two climbers who disappeared in the Swiss Alps in 1992 have been found, freed from a melting glacier, police said.

They Found 130,000 Bodies From World War I’s Bloodiest Battle. The reality behind the Battle of Verdun is fascinating, and the story of the Douaumont Ossuary is one of the most incredible tales in ...

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