World War II

Millie Dunn Veasey was a member of the 6888th Battalion. She was honored during a renaming ceremony of the post office on Brentwood Road at her home church, St. Ambrose Episcopal Church in Raleigh.

Neil Frye, who was 20 years old when he was killed, was a mess attendant on the USS West Virginia when it was attacked at Pearl Harbor.

Neil Frye, who was 20 years old when he was killed, was a mess attendant on the USS West Virginia when it was attacked at Pearl Harbor.

Army Private Booker T. Spicely was shot by a white bus driver after Spicely complained about having to sit in the back.

101-year-old Joe Cooper was a crew member of the USS Ommaney Bay, which was attacked by a Japanese suicide pilot in World War II.

The Navy used the lighthouse during World War II and it became climbable for the public about a decade ago. The Outer Banks icon is one of the last of its kind.

Now in his 90s, World War II veteran Frank DeVita recalls his experience as a teenager in the Coast Guard, serving on a landing craft transporting infantry to invade Omaha Beach on the coast of Nazi-occupied on D-Day, June 6, 1944.

The remains of 1st Lt. James “Dick” Wright, the hero who vanished during World War II, were finally returned to his tiny Robeson County hometown this week.

Thomas Faucette, a World War II Army veteran from Greensboro, just turned 100-years-old and is still a school crossing guard.

President Roosevelt opened all branches of the military to Black troops in 1941, but for African-American service like Luther Hendricks, racism...