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There was a big 95th birthday celebration Tuesday in Lake Barrington for the amazing life of a World War II veteran, who fought with the Polish resistance.
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 ...
With further delays to the return of the MV Caledonian Isles, there is some small positive news for Clyde shipping. The model was in a poor state of repair, and its restoration may help illuminate the ...
John Hilgert, director of the Nebraska Department of Veterans' Affairs, speaks at a medal ceremony honoring an Omaha World War II veteran. The ceremony is part of an initiative launched earlier ...
To the public, he's a World War II hero who also happens to be the only member of the Coast Guard with a Medal of Honor (so far). To hundreds of Marines who fought at Guadalcanal on Sept.
but it looks as though the hasty effort had the unwanted side effect of erasing some of America's greatest heroes -- including at least one Medal of Honor recipient from World War II. According to ...
European-African-Middle Eastern Medal, Bronze Service Star, World War II Medal, U.S. Army Air Force Aerial Gunner Badge Wings, and Honorable Service Lapel Button. Sanford was born on March 21 ...
I’d never heard of these POWs before – all those Great Escapes & never a brown face among them. So what was the experience of Indian POWs after their return home, the Épinal escapers and the others?
A collection of rare Second World War medals belonging to a Luton bomber pilot are going up for auction next month – and are expected to sell for thousands. Did you know with an ad-lite subscription ...
But The Final Days of Ernest Larman came about by chance after Langford Parish Council chairman John Shipman spotted an eBay listing for two medals that had been posthumously awarded to Ernest. And ...
From the battlefields of World War II to a pivotal stand during the Korean ... earn the nation’s highest honor – the Congressional Medal of Honor – during a battle on the Naktong River ...
More information on obtaining proof of service for the Civilian Service Medal 1939-1945 can be found on the National Archives of Australia Fact Sheet 39 (Civilian service in World War II). Anniversary ...