Military Times6h
The WWI aviators who gave their lives to help the ‘Lost Battalion’
With his final breaths, one of the aviators provided information to give Allied artillery accurate coordinates to target ...
Military.com8h
The Still-Living Janitor Who Received a 'Posthumous' Medal of Honor
Army Pvt. William Crawford was declared killed in action and was awarded a posthumous Medal of Honor, which was presented to ...
Kentucky Today11h
Missing WWII warfighters found, families find closure after 80 years
Missing in Action. Just six weeks before World War II would end, the news came to four U.S. service member families via ...
Smithsonian Magazine14h
Remains of American Soldier Captured by the Japanese During World War II Identified Nearly 80 Years Later
After his plane was shot down, Glenn H. Hodak was sent to a military prison in Tokyo, where he was killed by U.S. firebombing ...
80 years after World War II, Okinawa’s battle sites are still giving up bones and bombs
An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen honors sisters, ages 101 and 103, for work at WWII bomber plant
Two sisters, who are 101 and 103 years old, were honored by Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen on Monday for their work at the World War II bomber plant where the ...
A Greenville WWII captain was shot down, taken prisoner by Nazis. A memorial is planned in Germany.
Greenville native Miles Richard "Dick" League, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, fought in World War II. He was a prisoner of ...