On the right side are his great grandfather’s WWII medals, which had been passed down through the family. “I feel proud... coming from that lineage,” he said. Jackson said he usually went to ...

Many of those gathered were wearing the war medals of loved ones, including Rocky Benbow, who grew emotional when talking about wearing his dad’s WWII medals. “I take them for a walk every ...

We’re back at the abandoned WWII US Army training base, where thousands of American soldiers prepared for deployment to Europe. Left untouched since the end of the war, this site holds decades-old ...

Thieves took boxes of his belongings that were yet to be unpacked and stole effectively everything he owned, including all his clothes, sentimental family mementoes and his father’s war medals.

And while the unit's members received several medals upon its return to the U.S. in 1946 ... and a growing backlog of mail — the War Department created the 6888th in 1944. "They kept hollering about ...

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And while the unit's members received several medals upon its return to the U.S. in 1946 ... and a growing backlog of mail — the War Department created the 6888th in 1944. "They kept hollering about ...

After six years of occupation, war and bloodshed in Europe, the front page of the Times-Herald newspaper’s May 8, 1945, ...

Roman Cherubini, who was killed in Burma on June 16, 1944, arrived in Reno on Friday aboard a Southwest ... for the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star along with other awards and medals. Roman Cherubini ...

What started off as a few questions from a child about her family history became a massive search of World War II records in an effort to find a veteran’s lost medals. I sat her next to me and ...