Carl Schrat, a World War II veteran who served in the navy, was joined by Gov. Jim Pillen and honored at a World War II medal ...

Eighty years after World War II, Gov. Jim Pillen created a medal to honor living veterans of the war. This week he visited ...

After more than 80 years hidden beneath the waves off Rio de Janeiro, the location of a Brazilian troop transport ship torpedoed and sunk by Nazi Germany was definitively confirmed by Brazil’s navy ...

Atlanta World War II veteran Albert Henley "Hank" Sturgess ... Outside his time in the Navy, he lived in Georgia for the rest of his life. Good Day's Buck Lanford met Sturges in 2023 when the ...

After the policy forbidding German Jews from serving in the U.S. military was changed during World War II, Pins joined the Army and was going through basic training, believing he would be sent ...

World War II veterans are described as “The Greatest Generation” because of their courage, patriotism and strength in the ...

As recently as July, the Brazilian navy had told Brazil’s O Globo newspaper ... as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was transporting ...

One by one, with canes, walkers, and wheelchairs in tow, these veterans carefully navigated their way to the World War II Memorial for a brief ceremony.

"Protect the future, honor the past," was the signature phrase of the last living survivor of the USS Arizona, befriended by ...

Often the decision to make such sacrifices are made in the heat of battle however as the Second World War entered its final phase, the demand for sacrifice in order to help turn the tide against ...

Soemu Toyoda’s complex plan for the much-depleted Imperial Japanese Navy to strike a blow against ... The following day, Japanese forces lost one of the world’s two biggest battleships ...