An airman from Pittsburgh, who was killed in World War II, is now accounted for. U.S. Army Air Forces Sgt. Sidney Burke was ...

PHILADELPHIA — The remains of a Philadelphia native killed on a bombing mission over Burma during World War II were identified late last year, nearly 80 years after his death, the Defense POW/MIA ...

A Pittsburgh native who was killed during World War II is now accounted for. Sgt. Sidney Burke, 22, was a member of the 22nd Bombardment Squadron, 341st Bombardment Group, 10th Air Force and served as ...

Lost in Burma in 1944, 1st Lt. Herman Sundstad — one of Merrill’s Marauders — has been identified through DNA from the daughter he never met. This Veterans Day, he’ll receive a hero’s farewell. Herman ...

Like the subject it covers, it takes a while for “Skies of Thunder” to get going. Caroline Alexander’s World War II aviation history deals with Allied efforts to get supplies to China, a mission ...

Singapore gave Malaya meaning; nearly everyone knew that Singapore was a great naval base. Burma had no Singapore. Burma was a strange place, with strange names, where Japanese invaded, British ...