Robert W. Boynton, 19, a West Aurora High School graduate, was murdered after his plane was shot down in Germany in 1944.
Al Albrecht kept his stories of deception, from inflatable tanks to his loudspeaker half-track, secret from his family for ...
Although more than 80 years have passed since Gino D’Ambrosio went to war, there are certain memories that never faded.
My father, a longtime Milwaukeean, duped Nazis with a fake army during World War II– then stayed silent about his secret ...
Levi Oakes was one of 17 known code talkers from Akwesasne Mohawk Territory who served in the Second World War and the only ...
Each year on Aug. 12, a small community in France holds a memorial ceremony to thank a Dixon man, an American soldier who was killed overseas during World War II while fighting to secure their freedom ...
He held pop-up services in fields and nursed injured comrades but was also a witness as the SAS headed into Belsen camp to ...
Morton Katz of Hartford, a 105-year-old WWII veteran, tells of indelible sights he saw from N. Africa to Italy, France, and ...
What you might not be aware of is that there were a fair few who were captured during the action and held as prisoners of war ...
He was the ‘Parachuting Padre’ dropped behind German lines armed with nothing but a bible and ... of his gallant father and ...
When the military took over Joseph Spillane's college, he decided to enlist in the U.S. Army. The Mystic resident fought in Europe before returning to school.