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A COLLECTION of items relating to a fallen First World War soldier is going under the hammer in Wotton under Edge.
When Benjamin Patterson stood at the grave of a 23-year-old World War II combat engineer from North Lawrence, he didn’t just ...
The grave of a serviceman who was killed during the retreat to Dunkirk during World War Two has been rededicated in his family's presence after more than 85 years. Major Richard White-Cooper of the ...
Four soldiers were killed in action in Germany, and on Tuesday the Nebraska Patriot Guard Riders escorted them to the Omaha ...
Being a Baby Boomer, World War II was not some abstract occurrence that I learned about in school or from the movies. I heard ...
About two years ago I was talking with Mike, a friend of mine I've known since Ronald Reagan was still in the White House, and he asked me a question out of left field: What if we went on a tour of ...
The grave of Point Pleasant native John “Jack” R. Carleton, who died fighting in World War II, is still tenderly cared for ...
Gibbs died at the age of 21 sometime after being shot down at the Rhine River at Kamp-Bornhofen, which is about 65 miles west of Frankfort. The crew was attempting to return to its base in England ...
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth commemorated the anniversary of the D-Day landings, in which American soldiers played a leading role, with veterans at the American Cemetery overlooking ... The ...
OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — The D-Day generation, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 years ago. World War II veterans, now mostly ...
They clamour for handshakes, selfies, kisses and autographs from WWII veterans ... 1944 were studded with German gun emplacements that mowed down American soldiers. “We are the lucky ones,” Larson ...