Gilbert "Choc" Charleston, who fought in the Battle of the Bulge and was the last remaining member of the 739th Tank ...
The following story was pieced together from an interview entitled The War years (and Wild Times) of Wesley Mayfield Riley, who served in the U.S. Army during World War II and died in 2006. NETTLETON ...
The annual Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day observance was held in Lehighton on Sunday, but with an addendum. Each year for ...
Bill Knapp, one of the architects of modern downtown Des Moines, will be interred at the Iowa Veterans Cemetery, another ...
Caliban Rising on MSN
No invite to the parade: The postwar fate of Poland's WWII heroes
After victory in 1945, Polish veterans found themselves in political limbo. This video explores Britain's complex position: pressured by Stalin's USSR, it could not grant Poland true independence but ...
Holocaust museums and Jewish veterans’ groups objected to the move, which had not previously been explained, as distorting ...
Beyond Walks on MSN
How German pilots came to respect American airmen in World War II
During World War II, German fighter pilots entered combat expecting American airmen to be inexperienced and fragile. This ...
Decorated Native American veteran Charles Shay has died at age 101 in France. Shay was a 19-year-old U.S. Army medic when he ...
As a medic, he saved soldiers from drowning off Omaha Beach on D-Day before becoming a prisoner of war. Back home, a ...
Army Times on MSN
The Japanese American ‘draft dodgers’ of WWII
In 1944, a few hundred U.S.-born Japanese Americans defied their draft orders, citing the constitutional rights of the ...
The 84th Pearl Harbor anniversary had no living survivors present, but stories like Alice Beck Darrow's keep the memory alive ...
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