Such hometown magazines served as a sort of collective family letter to far-flung troops yearning to get back home.
Father Kapaun’s story is retold in the new biography No Bullet Got Me Yet by John Stansifer. Stansifer tells the remarkable story of Chaplain Kapaun, a World War II and Korean War chaplain who ...
Rose DeJesus could remember her brother Joe Saracino well, mainly that he was like any young man at the time she last saw him. “He liked the girls, and he especially liked the next door neighbor, Ida, ...
Special to Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin USS Puffer (SS 268), the fourth submarine constructed ...
Opinion: Remembering and employing our vets should not be a perennial issue. It should happen every minute of every day of ...
In the quiet, sun-dappled halls of the Tribute Senior Living Facility in Prosper, you’ll find Johnnie Rothfus, a 100-year-old World War II veteran Army-Air Force staff sergeant and retired Dallas ...
Durwood “Bud” Buchheim, 101, of Sun Prairie, and John Storer, 97, of Maple Bluff, are among the estimated 100,000 or fewer ...
A fortune teller read his palm and told him that he had a long lifeline and would survive the war unscathed. On the ...
Jeremiah P. Mahoney had been missing in action since 1945. His remains will be interred in Arlington National Cemetery in ...
Roughly 110,000 World War II veterans remain out of the 16 million. Someone who was drafted or joined the military in 1945 at ...
According to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2023 estimates, York County is home to 25,111 veterans, 6.9 percent of the county's population of more than 363,000.