One of the oldest celebrated Armistice Day/Veterans Day ceremonies in the country is hosted by the Infantry Lodge Association ...
As Veterans Day approaches, columnist Joe Blackstock shares stories – big and small – recalling those who have served in the ...
Army National Guard Lt. Col. Nick Suhr, a Delmar resident and Iraq War veteran, received the medal upon retirement.
With fire streaming from his engine and the right wing half enveloped in flames, Lindsey led the formation to drop their 2,000-pound loads over France.
Neel Kearby became a hardcore “believer” in the P-47 and devoted himself to developing a doctrine for making the most of the ...
COLLINSVILLE, Ill. — Eighty years after leaving her St. Louis neighborhood to help repair warships during World War II, a Metro East woman known as a “Rosie the Riveter” has received one of the nation ...
The family of World War II veteran Sgt. Daniel Rapoza, Sr. received several posthumous medals for his service. Rapoza was killed in action at age 21 during a mission in Burma on Nov. 5, 1944. U.S.
We uncovered an EPIC silver cache at an abandoned WWII U.S. Army base while metal detecting with the History Seekers Team. Using the Minelab CTX 3030 and Equinox 800, we located silver coins, soldiers ...
Although embarking on a 28-day voyage to see glaciers and volcanoes at 106 years old is a remarkable feat on its own, Alice Beck Darrow’s journey to Honolulu aboard Holland America Line’s Westerdam ...
Using his entrenching tool and his bare hands to find his entombed comrades, David Gonzales pulled three men out alive out of the sandy earth. (Congressional Medal of Honor Society) The Villa Verde ...
ARLINGTON – Hunt County native and World War II hero Audie Murphy is among the Medal of Honor recipients honored at the newly opened National Medal of Honor Museum, where a freestanding exhibit traces ...