A U.S. Army soldier from Northern California who was captured during World War II and died as a prisoner of war in the ...

The World War II “Jeep” may be the vehicle most often identified with the U.S. military, but it owes its existence to a truck with a closer connection to Veterans Day. World War I took place at a ...

Twenty-eight teams from fire departments across County fired up vats of chili for thousands of attendees and some celebrity ...

Queen Elizabeth was a military truck driver during World War II. Queen Elizabeth was only 18 years old when she begged her father, King George VI, to take part in helping out during World War II.

ZOARVILLE ‒ Jack Dauer felt proud to serve his country in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II. "Oh yes ... working as a truck driver, ammunition carrier and machine gunner.

It included speeches, patriotic music from the Las Gallinas Valley Sanitary District Non-Marching Band and a display of World War II military vehicles. Sal Marota, a 99-year-old World War II veteran ...

Communities across Oregon and Southwest Washington are gathering to commemorate Veterans Day on Monday. These various events include parades, ceremonies, as well as a benefit concert featuring ...

Conceptually, it never changes, whether you’re re-fighting WW2 or blowing planes out of ... have even added helicopters and modern military vehicles to the mix. Whichever battlefield you elect ...

With the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge a month away, Army veterans Harry Miller and Frank Cohn will take center ...

Crosley-produced proximity fuses were the first deployed to enemy lines and responsible for the first kill of an enemy aircraft. The world's first smart bomb, produced here in Cincinnati, turned the ...

I remember my first sight of the shop and it shocked me,” he recalled. “It was in dry dock for repairs, just coming home from ...

However, Landing Ship Tanks performed invaluable service in World War II, particularly on D-Day ... On June 7, LST-325 anchored off Omaha and unloaded its men and vehicles. Between June 1944 and the ...