There was no Armistice Day parade in the Wyoming Valley in November 1942, as the United States — 11 months earlier — had entered World War II when Pearl Harbor was attacked. Thousands of young men and ...
Two icons met in the skies over the Pacific—the agile Japanese Zero and the rugged American Wildcat. One prized for speed and ...
Bob St. Peters and Gerald Schmidt were in the South Pacific during World War II ...
Don Faurot, head football coach at the University of Missouri, enlisted in the U.S. Navy during World War II despite being ...
The generation that fought in World War II is a proud yet shrinking group. The US Department of Veterans Affairs estimates ...
Community rallied to rebuild Laredo WWII veteran John Edward Berry’s home and dignity in 2014; he died in 2016 honored by the ...
After 83 years, the remains of Army Staff Sgt. John Pagliuso, a native of Lyons, will return home Wednesday with full ...
One of our nation’s small band of remaining World War II veterans can still recall the “immense relief” when news reached his ...
"We validate, commemorate and show appreciation for their effort, their valor and sacrifice — endured within the unimaginable ...
MacDonald, who joined the Marines at the age of 15 by lying about his age, was part of a group of roughly 420 Navajo code ...
One of the nation’s most storied military branches, the United States Marine Corps — tracing its roots to the Revolutionary ...
He oversaw supplies for the war effort under Lyndon B. Johnson and later had a brief, rocky tenure as president of The ...