She was assigned to help build B-26 airplane wings for the war effort in Illinois before she decided to enlist in the Marine ...
The Battle of Okinawa lasted from April 1 to June 22, 1945. Two-time Purple Heart recipient LaSota returned to the island for ...
An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...
Nicknamed the “Tokyo Express” by their opponents, the Japanese “tin cans” acquired the grudging respect of the Americans for ...
John McClelland “Jack” Elliott, a historian and Marine aviation veteran who served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam ... be sitting upstairs looking at us and saying, ‘Oh, you people ...
Arthur's biography on the U.S. DOD website, published in 2021, described her enlistment in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve ...
World War II U.S. Navy Veteran, Joseph McCarron, celebrated his 100th birthday surrounded by friends and loved ones earlier ...
He was a member of a segregated unit in the Pacific Northwest that fought forest fires set off by Japanese balloon bombs.
Greenville native Miles Richard "Dick" League, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, fought in World War II. He was a prisoner of ...
Before he passed, former Texas Tech Professor Bill Pasewark recalled seeing "things that stay with you forever" on Iwo Jima during World War II.