The ruptured eardrum qualified Pressel for the Purple Heart. But he wasn’t concerned ... David Sample met Pressel about 30 years ago at a World War II memorial week in Reading, Pa.

The following obituary is from the April 2, 2011 print edition of the Savage Pacer newspaper: Harold M. Hansen Harold Hansen, 85, of Savage, died Thursday, March 24, 2011 at his home. He was born in ...

After decades of discrimination, Vernon Baker was finally recognized for his heroism during an assault on a German stronghold ...

JFK, the son of Joseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917. He ...

SEVENTY-NINE YEARS ago the end was in sight for World War 2. Germany unconditionally surrendered on May 7, 1945. Japan unconditionally surrendered on September 2, 1945.

Yuen Hop was considered missing in action for 80 years when his plane was shot down over Germany in World War II His only remaining ... posthumously with the Purple Heart, Air Medal with one ...

Four Chaplains Day is a day of remembrance for a team of Army chaplains who sacrificed their lives to save hundreds ...

Pfc. Duane Tunnyhill of Omaha was ready to die with his fellow Marines at Iwo Jima. He survived and lived another 80 years to become the last man ...