At 106 years old, Charles McGregor has seen more than most. But one moment, decades in the making, just became reality. McGregor, a World War II veteran now living in Edmond, finally received seven ...
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A 99-year-old Valley veteran has finally received the military medals he earned during his service in the Army during World War II. Harry Topoozian was born in Malaga on Jan.
Joining the British Army as a private in 1933 to indulge his love of sports, Howard-Jones earned his commission in ’38 and quickly established teams in the 8th Battalion, Royal Tank Corps. His actions ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- It's never too late to honor a veteran - even seven decades late. William Gilbert, 94, served in the Navy during World War II and earned several honors, but never got any of them ...
Master Sergeant Roderick “Roddie” Edmonds, a World War II hero who defied the Nazis and saved around 200 Jewish-Americans, could receive a Congressional Gold Medal, ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (News-Press NOW) -- Congressman Sam Graves presented military recovered service medals to the family of a Northwest Missouri veteran. U.S. Rep. Graves, R-Mo., presented the medals to ...
TRUMBULL -- Bill Benedetto picked up the faded, but still readable, letter by its corners. Less oil from his arthritic fingers that way. Tears pooled in his eyes behind his big tortoise-shell glasses.
A Michigan man who bought a vintage safe at a garage sale is now trying to return its historical contents, including World War II medals, to the families of two men who once owned them. Ben Cameron of ...
(CNN) — World War II US Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi survived two chest wounds from Japanese gunfire, the Bataan Death March, wretched captivity in prisoner-of-war camps and the sinking of his first ...
Weeks before Germany surrendered to the Allied Forces in World War II, a young Chicagoan named Stephen Grabowski was stationed in Italy on his way to La Spezia when enemy forces struck his bunker with ...