The headlong pursuit by the Allied armies had all but wiped the Germans from the soil of France. They still held out desperately in the ports, determined to hamstring Allied supply to the bitter end.

It was March 18, 1945, and Walter J. Stoudenmire of Orangeburg was facing the vaunted Siegfried Line — the fortified belt of trenches, barbed wire, pillboxes, concrete barriers and bunkers that marked ...

BRIDGEPORT — The long-lost remains of a 19-year-old Bridgeport soldier who was killed in combat during World War II will be buried in Rhode Island after they were recently discovered in Germany, ...