James Peyton tells ABC15 he was injured multiple times in combat - in one incident, he explains he had to remove shrapnel from his own chest and had no other choice.
Good morning, Chicago. Wounded in the shoulder and ordered to retire from combat, Pfc. Delbert Tuttle refused to leave his fellow U.S. Marines as his unit invaded the Japanese-held island of Saipan ...
The Vietnam War was raging when Dan King left his Oneida Reservation home one Sunday, telling his mother he’d be back. “I never said what year,” King joked in a recent lecture recalling his experience ...
A Port Hawkesbury woman has long imagined a Remembrance Day with her great-uncle's war medals. It will happen this year for ...
Although the former Rousselot gelatin factory sits empty along Washington Street, the names of a special group of employees ...
The medal one of twelve that Frerichs office has been able to return. READ ALSO | Black WWII veteran who was denied the ...
Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, there were over 12,000 women acting as nurses within the military. Most of them ...
(WLOX) - A World War II soldier who died during the Normandy Invasion is the ... Steele inherited his father’s possessions in ...
Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frerichs returned Tuttle's Purple Heart to his daughter, Carolyn Peckham, during a private ...
The veterans were presented with replacement medals on Saturday by the British High Commissioner to Kenya, Neil Wigan.
The typewriter was used by war correspondent Leslie James Fitz-Henry in Papua New Guinea during World War II. His family also ...