James Peyton tells ABC15 he was injured multiple times in combat - in one incident, he explains he had to remove shrapnel from his own chest and had no other choice.
Jeremiah P. Mahoney was killed in a pitched battle with German forces near Reipertswiller, France, in early 1945. New technology finally brought closure.
On a recent fall day, Tuttle’s 71-year-old daughter held her father’s heart-shaped medal for the first time after Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs presented it to her during a poignant Oct. 29 ...
As an Army veteran, I would like to salute and thank all fellow veterans for their service to our country. Veterans Day is a day to recognize, honor, and thank those who served in the ...
At 101-years-old, Chase is one of a dwindling number of living veterans in the city who served in the second world war as a ...
A fortune teller read his palm and told him that he had a long lifeline and would survive the war unscathed. On the battlefield in Europe, he thought about that prophecy whenever he had a close call ...
ALBANY â€” Less than two miles behind the front lines during World War I, some American women telephone operators sat at switchboards that shook severely from the sounds of the big guns they could hear ...
A Port Hawkesbury woman has long imagined a Remembrance Day with her great-uncle's war medals. It will happen this year for ...
The medal one of twelve that Frerichs office has been able to return. READ ALSO | Black WWII veteran who was denied the ...
Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, there were over 12,000 women acting as nurses within the military. Most of them ...
(WLOX) - A World War II soldier who died during the Normandy Invasion is the ... Steele inherited his father’s possessions in ...
THE last surviving relative of a Guernsey-born First World War hero believes that his story has gone largely untold due to an ...