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Trooper First Class Pelletier posthumously awarded lifesaving medal, Medal of Honor
NBC Connecticut· 15 hours agoTrooper First Class Aaron Pelletier is being awarded posthumously with the lifesaving medal and the ...
FDNY heroes awarded medals for daring acts — from rope rescues to thwarting bridge jumpers
NY Post metro via Yahoo News· 11 hours agoMayor Eric Adams and Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh, presented dozens of firefighters, EMTs and...
A Legendary Missing World War II Plane Has Appeared in the Jungle After 80 Years
Popular Mechanics· 2 days agoFor his heroism, General Douglas MacArthur presented Bong with aMedal of Honor in December 1944. As...
Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion
Chicago Tribune· 7 hours agoThe June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France was unprecedented in scale and audacity,...
A jacket, a coin, a letter − relics of Omaha Beach battle tell the story of D-Day 80 years later
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoAs a Jewish man, Weberbauer’s fight with the Nazis understandably carried great significance in the...
Heroic soldier is honored at last | Only in Oklahoma
Tulsa World· 18 hours agoII but refused medical treatment and continued fighting for three more days until his tank exploded under enemy fire, killing him and wounding the tank...
New England Air Museum to feature bronze casting of WWII veteran Ann Griffin Gleszer’s medal
FOX61· 7 hours agoThe New England Air Museum announced this week that it will receive a donation of a bronze casting...
D-Day stories from Cambridge American Cemetery
BBC News· 3 hours agoOn D-Day, 6 June 1944, thousands of American service personnel perished on the beaches of Normandy, and most are buried or remembered at the Normandy...
Thousands of police join family to mourn CT Trooper Aaron Pelletier at funeral
Hartford Courant· 19 hours agoThousands of law enforcement officers and others joined the family of Trooper First Class Aaron...
A Black medic wounded on D-Day saved dozens of lives. He’s finally being posthumously honored
CBS 47 Fresno· 3 days agoWASHINGTON (AP) — Waverly Woodson Jr., a medic who was part of the only Black combat unit to take...