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A World War II veteran has been presented with his service medals 80 years after serving on the home front. Harry Neal, who turns 100 this weekend, manned an artillery gun on the Hawkesbury to ...
The museum, which opened in 2011, was created by Higinio “Buddy” Clark Mendoza, son of a former Palawan war veteran. A helmet ...
Stuart Pagel, 98, enlisted in the U.S. Navy at 17. Eight decades after the end of WWII, he will ride in a gold Mustang in ...
Keysor had won Britain’s highest military honor for heroism, the Victoria Cross, as a bomb thrower (hand grenade) during the ...
Saturday, the LST 393 Veterans Museum is hosting its eleventh community wide event to commemorate the anniversary of D-Day.
The D-Day commemoration will feature war ship tours, vintage plane flyover, battle reenactments, music and a movie.
When you arrive at Winston Churchill’s country home, Chartwell, near Kent in South East England, you understand why he was ...
Jennifer McMullen has her eye on a younger man. Granted, it’s her husband of 79 years, Mel, who turns 100 on June 5.
NPR speaks with Jonathan Horn about his new book, "The Fate of the Generals," which tells the story of two commanders in World War II who received the same medal but found honor on different paths.
Clarence Schipper has a story to tell. A 101-year-old World War II veteran and one of the last surviving members of the Greatest Generation, he has tales worth telling. He can tell them well, too.
Poland was under communist rule from the end of World War II until 1989 ... When she was 36, Ms Szczepanska chose to come to Australia — a country she had never been to and had no connections ...
Emma Bushee's sons were serving on six continents. At home, she waited for their letters — and tried to pray them home safe.