Navy PB4Y-1 pilot Bruce Van Voorhis was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in the South Pacific. Here, a ...
Minden resident Jeff Evans and Col. Jackson Doan, commanding officer of the Marines’ Mountain Warfare Training Center north of Bridgeport, California, were among the speakers at this year’s annual ...
Chairwoman Dr. Dawn Buckingham on April 4 introduced the next installment of the series highlighting the VLB's Voices of Veterans oral history program. This week, they highlight the service of ...
Harry Lynn, 102, and his daughter, Sherri Lynn, 65, both of Scottsbluff, died in the crash on U.S. 26 west of Scottsbluff ...
U.S. Marine Corps Pfc. Ralph Henry Johnson dived on a grenade to save another Marine. His name adorns Charleston’s VA ...
The reason Go for Broke Day is on April 5th is for the heroic actions of private first class Sadao S. Munemori. Munemori was ...
The Trump administration’s erasures are a deliberate whitewash of inconvenient American historical truths to create its ...
By the time Raymond K. “Duke” Deamer joined his bomber unit in February 1944 at RAF Knettishall, Suffolk, England, the ...
Nicknamed the “Tokyo Express” by their opponents, the Japanese “tin cans” acquired the grudging respect of the Americans for ...
Pillen presented Lynn with a state of Nebraska medallion to recognize World War II veterans during ceremonies on March 11.
The corner of 58th Avenue and 73rd Place in Maspeth now bears the name of a beloved veteran and community member.The ...
O’Malley, 81, the first U.S. Marine Corps recipient of the Medal of Honor in the Vietnam war, was accompanied by his stepdaughter Shannon Dear. She lives in Euless; O’Malley lived in a nursing home in ...