World War II

ROMULUS, Mich. (AP) — Seven decades after their "we can do it" attitude proved invaluable to the Allied victory in World War II, about 30 "Rosie the Riveters" are being honored with a flight to Washington, D.C. A plane carrying up to 30 Rosies will leave Detroit Metropolitan Airport Tuesday morning for the nation's capital. The...

NEW YORK (AP) — Two former Army nurses who were roommates seven decades ago on remote South Pacific islands are sharing a milestone. As Amelia Greeley and Ruth Girk turn 100, the World War II colleagues are still so close that they talk on the phone nearly every night. ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A treasure trove of silent, color films showing U.S. Marines in action during World War II, Korea and Vietnam is being brought out of storage, preserved and placed online for everyone to see. Many of the images have hardly been seen — even by the Marine combat photographers who took them from the 1930s and into the 1970s. For...

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — Flags will be lowered across the Navajo Nation in honor of another Navajo Code Talker who has died. Tribal officials announced Wednesday that Alfred James Peaches died last Saturday at a Flagstaff hospital at age 90. ...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The nation's most polluted nuclear weapons production site is now its newest national park. Thousands of people are expected next year to tour the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, home of the world's first full-sized nuclear reactor, near Richland, about 200 miles east of Seattle in south-central Washington. ...