A U.S. Army soldier who earned the prestigious Medal of Honor during World War II has been accounted for more than eight ...

Eleven cadets and midshipmen who played for their service academies would go on to receive the nation's highest award for ...

World War II US Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi survived two chest wounds from Japanese gunfire, the Bataan Death March, wretched captivity in prisoner-of-war camps and the sinking of his first POW ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WIVB) — It was early October. There was an overcast sky and a cool autumn breeze. Inspiration was in the air when a sea of pink washed over the nation’s capital. This is ...

Survivors recalled arriving at the Wounded Knee camp three days after the fighting, finding a blizzard had buried the frozen bodies of Lakota men, women, children and infants in snow. They described ...

One of the first waves of Marines to hit the beach hug the ground as they land on Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945. (INP pool/AP) On Oct. 5, 1945, President Harry S. Truman placed the Medal of Honor around ...

Portrait of Pfc. Willy F. James, Jr. of Kansas City, one of only seven Black soldiers in World War II, to be awarded the Medal of Honor. On Friday, James was posthumously given his honorary high ...

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Former United States Army Staff Sergeant Ryan M. Pitts once described Gillette Stadium — the home of his beloved New England Patriots — as the NFL equivalent of “church.” Yet, ...

When most people think of the Pacific Theater of World War II, they envision tropical islands, heat, and jungle combat. However, the 18-day campaign in May 1943 to retake a remote Aleutian island from ...

A Black man is responsible for making sure all of us can sleep safely in our homes at night. WA Martin, who patented the ...

When two understrength Marine companies pushed north along Highway 561 on the morning of July 2, 1967, they walked straight ...