John Lauritsen is an Emmy award-winning reporter from Montevideo, Minn. He joined WCCO-TV in late-July of 2007. Two days after he started, the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed. For many veterans, ...

Over the past year, WCCO has shared stories about a 101-year-old World War II veteran from Bloomington. We caught up with Les Schrenk on the beaches of Normandy for the 80th anniversary of D-Day last ...

STARKE, Fla. — Northeast Florida may be widely thought of as Navy territory, but that wasn’t always the case. Today, Camp Blanding in Clay County is primarily the home of the Florida National Guard, ...

In 1943, Buffalo, New York, native Bob Stromberg went to the draft board to see when he'd be called to serve in World War II — a question he says caught them by surprise. "'Well, here's a live one!' ...

“They offered to give me things to the point of embarrassment, but not to sell them,” Allen Hendershott Eaton wrote in Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps ...

A local man trying to learn more about his family's heritage has turned the experience into a documentary.

When Anna Gabulya saw a television report of a POW’s return to Hungary a half-century after he served during World War II, she noticed the resemblance immediately. She saw in András Toma a likeness ...

A Detroit soldier who was captured and died as a prisoner of war (POW) during World War II has been identified and recovered. U.S. Army Pvt. Kenneth L. Kramer, 20, of Detroit, was a member of 19th Air ...

When it comes to military heroes, Edwin “Ed” Beck is in rarified air. Beck, a retired Army master sergeant, served in three wars – World War II, Korea and Vietnam – along with being a prisoner of war.

Roderick Edmonds, a twenty-four-year-old non-commissioned officer from Tennessee, is one of just five Americans recognized by ...