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Richard Fazzio, who was 19 and serving in the Navy during the first wave of the D-Day invasion, received the Bob Dole World ...
Albert Lamond, 99, helped evacuate Allied prisoners of war from remote islands in the Pacific after Japan’s surrender.
Tommy Anderson of Dover, who helped the Allies win World War II as a soldier in the "ghost army," died Aug. 1 at age 102.
"This isn't just a fight for us," Technical Sgt. Alyx Anguiano told The Advocate. "It's a threat to every person who has ...
As the world once again marks VJ Day – Japan’s signing of a peace treaty on August 15, 1945 that marked its surrender in World War Two – one local family is reflecting on a Tyrone man who was ...
York D-Day veteran Ken Cooke is 100 today and The Press has been sent birthday wishes for him from across the city and ...
A 99-year-old Second World War veteran has said ahead of the 80th anniversary of Victory over Japan Day (VJ Day) that there are “not many of us left”. Dougie Shelley, who joined the Royal Navy aged 17 ...
The Department of Veterans Affairs announced it has processed more disability benefits compensation and pension ratings claims in a single year than ever before ...
At 106-years-old, Tommy Gwynn can tell first-hand stories like few others. The history he's lived is nothing short of ...