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.

On a recent fall day, Tuttle’s 71-year-old daughter held her father’s heart-shaped medal for the first time after Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs presented it to her during a poignant Oct. 29 ...

A Port Hawkesbury woman has long imagined a Remembrance Day with her great-uncle's war medals. It will happen this year for ...

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 state of Illinois has returned a Purple Heart medal to the daughter of a Marine who was wounded in the invasion of Saipan ...

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 ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WSIL) -- A Purple Heart was returned to the family of a late World War II Marine in Illinois. The Illinois ...

The medal replacement is part of a wider initiative to honour the vital role played by Kenyan veterans who took part in World War II and replace lost medals. The medal re-presentation was hosted by ...