The French government is preparing to present Alan Kinder, a 100-year-old World War II veteran, with the Legion of Honor, the European country’s highest decoration.

Jack Dougherty was just 21 years old in 1945 when he and fellow soldiers came across something they could not fathom — the ...

In The Great Épinal Escape, Ghee Bowman tells the incredible story of forgotten Indian prisoners of war, and their daring escape to Switzerland during WW2.

After the end of Prohibition and World War II, Missourians replanted some ... and in recent years TerraVox has received gold medals and silver ribbons from the San Francisco Chronicle and other ...

One reason may be that the Soviets were U.S. allies at the time; counterintelligence efforts were focused on German agents ... that I did not receive any high awards upon my return," he wrote ...

but never sought any recognition for her heroism German-born Ruth Klauber has been recognised for her work in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force during the Second World War and awarded two medals ...

A Chattanooga World War II airman who ... Saturday at National Medal of Honor Heritage Center) "Other bombers in the group saw Little Joe take heavy fire from the German fighter planes and roll ...

Germany marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis' Buchenwald concentration camp Sunday, with warnings ...

Six rare World War Two medals awarded to a Lancaster Bomber pilot have sold for £24,000 at auction. Flight Lieutenant Edward Sydney Ellis, born in Luton in 1914 and employed by Vauxhall Motors ...

The National Medal of Honor Museum is set to open Tuesday in Arlington, just west of Dallas. It highlights the lives and service of Medal of Honor recipients from the Civil War to the global war ...