Eddie Palmer, who joined the Royal Navy when he was just 15, died in July aged 101. The torpedo specialist received seven ...

On Tuesday, 80 years after his death in a prisoner of war camp, the U.S. Navy posthumously awarded Knox a Purple Heart and a ...

All the civilian contractors on Wake Island received veteran status in 1981. Knox was recently awarded the Prisoner of War ...

A new bill seeks to honor U.S. veterans who fought in the Pacific and natives of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands captured during ...

The USS Richard M. McCool Jr. (LPD 29) was commissioned on Saturday, with one of the two ship sponsors being Richard’s ...

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Vietnam War medevac helicopter crews will be the latest military group to receive the highest award Congress can bestow.

A man who gave his life in service of his country during World War II finally received the recognition he deserved on Tuesday ...

The Salem man served in the 13th Armored Division, which was well-respected for support of Gen. Patton's Third Army.

On 20 September we celebrate POW/MIA Remembrance Day, and the OKC VA would like to highlight POW and World War II Army ...

Though he was peppered by shrapnel and severely burned after a kamikaze pilot slammed into his ship, Lt. Richard McCool Jr.

These are the best World War II movies of the past eight decades, according to a Military.com survey of U.S. service members ...