The Six Triple Eight cleared a years-long backlog of mail in just three months. Eighty years later, the unit is finally ...

hosted a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony to the members ... all-female unit to serve during World War II. The move came after a long-running campaign for the group — who was credited with ...

The ribbon design pays homage to the U.S. Military’s World War II Victory Medal, which is itself a doubling of the pattern on the World War I Victory Medal. The event began with the presentation ...

MILWAUKEE WORLD WAR TWO VETERAN AND HER ARMY BATTALION, MADE UP OF BLACK WOMEN, RECEIVED A LONG OVERDUE HONOR TODAY. LAWMAKERS PRESENTED THE 6888 WITH THE CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL, THE HIGHEST ...

VISIT VETERA Those medals are part of an initiative created earlier this year by Gov. Jim Pillen and the state Department of Veteran Affairs. Nebraska deployed 144,000 during World War II.

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 ...