In the wake of Pearl Harbor, she joined the Navy, coinciding with her three brothers' enlistment during World War II. She served as a physical therapist, her military-issued leather bag ...
U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Gordon Larson, 22, of Seattle, was accounted for on Aug. 12. He was captured and killed during World ...
(CBS DETROIT) — The remains of a World War II airman from Michigan who was captured, subjected to the Bataan Death March and ...
A soldier from Webberville, U.S. Army Air Forces Sgt. James W. Swartz, 21, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war in ...
Listening to an amazing new package from Mosaic Records, “Classic V-Disc Small Group Jazz Sessions ... were virtually the only sessions produced in those peak years of World War II. For one thing, ...
Before enlisting, he was working in textile manufacturing, according to World War II enlistment records on archives.gov. As a teenager in the early 1930s Baker was a student at Dixon High School, ...
In light of recent political events, an upcoming election and Veterans Day observances, his time as a soldier during World War II has become a point of interest ... my father felt free to discuss his ...
Index cards taped to a large board on the wall at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, reveal the sometimes blunt and gritty reasons ...
The state of Illinois has returned a Purple Heart medal to the daughter of a Marine who was wounded in the invasion of Saipan ...
With fewer men willing to fight, Russia is focusing on cash incentives for those who sign up, seeking to avoid an unpopular ...
The work to protect these artifacts is as much about the future as it is about the past. By preserving these pieces of his ...