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 ...

You've certainly seen the photo of McDuffie. He's the sailor grabbing and kissing a nurse in the middle of Times Square after finding out WWII was over. The photo was shot August 14, 1945. McDuffie ...

Charles Jackson French, a WWII Navy hero, will have a destroyer named after him. He saved 15 men from shark-infested waters in 1942.

Joan Sheehan, a Houston resident and the daughter of a U.S. soldier who served in France during World War II, was presented with a bracelet engraved with her father's name and a personal inscription ...

U.S. Navy Seaman 2nd class Ross Covina shipped off to serve in World War II in 1941, and never came home. Now his last living relative, Pat Rosalee, is pushing for a place to honor him.

A photograph from a series of images showing the tattoos of C. A. Lushbaugh, who served in the Navy in the 1920s. (USS Arizona Memorial Collection, Naval History and Heritage Command) During his third ...