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This week marks the 30th anniversary of the infamous 1995 Chicago heat wave​, which took 739 lives. One of them was a World ...
World War II veteran Thomas Roberts celebrated his 100th birthday with a special celebration at VFW Post 4588 in Bossier City ...
Cary Cox and Holt Rast were teammates at Alabama in the late 1930s, and later served with distinction in the U.S. Army during ...
Prior to World War II, the Imperial Japanese Navy embraced the Kantai Kessen strategy, which envisioned victory through a single, decisive naval battle dominated by superior firepower. Inspired by ...
If you visit World War II Weekend in Berwick today through Sunday, you’ll likely see vintage Jeeps, military trucks, and ...
Private First Class Norman R. Thomas, a World War II veteran who went missing in action, was laid to rest in Chilton County ...
Zamperini's dream of participating in the 1940 Tokyo Olympics was thwarted by World War II. The games were canceled and he traded his track shorts for a military uniform, thus commencing his second ...
Speaker Frank F. Blas Jr. seeks to rename Route 6 the “World War II Survivors Memorial Highway,” as part of efforts to honor ...
Thomas was a member of 48th Material Squadron, 5th Air Base Group, when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in ...
MOULTON, Ala. ( WAFF) - Hundreds of people from all over came to the Lawrence Funeral Home, waved flags, made signs, and ...
This week marks the 30th anniversary of the infamous 1995 Chicago heat wave, which took 739 lives. As Shardaa Gray reports, one of them was a World War II veteran who got a proper sendoff in Homewood ...
The USS Laffey (DD-459) sunk in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on November 13, 1942. According to the USS Laffey Association, 59 sailors were either killed or lost in the bombing. The Laffey was ...