Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower had a problem. In June 1944, Allied forces had landed on Normandy Beach in France and were moving east toward Nazi Germany at a clip of sometimes 75 miles (121 kilometers) ...

Sealed in a box in his home office were memorabilia Benjamin Hall fiddled through, learning about a family member's experience in World War II. The Lansing resident shuffled through the box to see the ...

When David Fax was a cadet in the Air Force ROTC detachment at Howard University in the early 1970s, one of his professors asked him what he knew about the Tuskegee Airmen. Stumbling for an answer, ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The Red Ball Express is something not many people know about, but it played an integral role in ending World War II. It was a convoy system of trucks that supplied things ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A 96-year-old World War II veteran from Kentucky is being recognized as a true American hero. Albert Wess Sr., from Paris, Kentucky, loves educating people about the Red Ball ...

His birthplace is named after a fictional Native American heroine from an early-19th century novel. However, William Henry Micou grew up to have many adventures of his own — all of them real — on his ...

With a ceremonial ribbon cutting, a critical logistics effort from World War II was officially memorialized in U.S. Army Central’s Patton Hall: a monograph depicting the history and photos of the Red ...

WASHINGTON -- This week marks the 75th anniversary of the start of the Red Ball Express, the biggest movement of supplies in Europe during World War II. More than 6,000 truck drivers began delivering ...

Austin Powlis, a Teaneck resident who braved land mines and sniper fire to deliver supplies to Patton's 3rd Army in the months after D-Day, has died. He was 92. His death, on May 10 at Englewood ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shown here in May 1945, these black soldiers were attached to the 666th Quartermaster Truck Company that was part of the Red Ball ...