Royal Marine veteran Joseph Douglas Cheshire, who has just turned 102, got parental consent and joined just after his 17th ...

Given my own hazy memories, I realize that soon there will be no one alive who truly remembers that distant time. I grew up in a hi-rise overlooking Chicago’s Lake Michigan—about as cocooned from the ...

OUR KATIE THOMPSON. SITTING INSIDE HUDSON’S AMERICAN HERITAGE MUSEUM, SURROUNDED BY ORIGINAL WORLD WAR TWO TANKS AND OTHER ARTIFACTS, CASTOR SALAME SITS IN THE SAME UNIFORM. HE WORE SOME 80 PLUS YEARS ...

The son of a World War Two officer awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross has praised "unbelievable efforts" to tell his father's story. John Grayburn's dad, Lt John Grayburn, led a platoon defending ...

I was a child of the '50s and I grew up in a happy household with a father who worked very hard every day of his life and loved his family with all his heart, but I do not remember him talking about ...

The gray ship no longer carries tanks or troops. But the 60-year-old vessel still has its share of World War II memories of combat on the beaches of Normandy and the invasion of Sicily. On Friday, the ...

JEFFERSON -- This summer, Jefferson County’s historical museums will be saluting the 80th anniversary of World War II. With very few World War II veterans left, their passing goes to the memories of ...

Aug. 20—Looking out through reflective aviator sunglasses, Bill Groff stood outside his tent in the tan uniform of a World War II officer. The tent was set up on the grounds of Frederick's Rose Hill ...

The World War II memories of 17 Texas veterans get a hearing before a new audience Thursday at the Mayborn Museum with the talk “Tattooed on My Soul” led by Baylor University’s Institute for Oral ...

He didn't want to do it. Most of his life, Joseph Splichal had tried to forget his World War II memories. But, more than three months ago, Splichal compiled his memoirs from the diary he kept while ...