With the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge a month away, Army veterans Harry Miller and Frank Cohn will take center ...
Corporal Al Albrecht, and other men from the Ghost Army, stitched counterfeit patches onto their uniforms in WWII. These ...
The state of Illinois has returned a Purple Heart medal to the daughter of a Marine who was wounded in the invasion of Saipan ...
A young US Army soldier from Chicago who died fighting in World War II has spent nearly 80 years as nameless remains. Now ...
Al Albrecht kept his stories of deception, from inflatable tanks to his loudspeaker half-track, secret from his family for ...
Margarita Manhardt was a child in September 1944 when her family went to the port of embarkation piers in Hoboken to wish her ...
My father, a longtime Milwaukeean, duped Nazis with a fake army during World War II– then stayed silent about his secret ...
On Oct. 2, 2024, Carl Lee Nance Jr. turned 100. He was in the midst of many birthday celebrations. The Ripley Rotary Club, of which Nance was a longtime member, hosted a birthday lunch for him on Oct.
All weekend long, the World War I Museum and Memorial is offering free admission to veterans and military personnel, and half ...
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, and one Choctaw elder is being honored next month for his role in helping to win the war.
Veterans and active-duty military personnel can be some of the first to check out three new exhibits for free this weekend in ...
A Decatur woman recently received the Purple Heart earned by her late father, WWII Marine Delbert Tuttle, as part of an ...