Jesse Broyles sold peanuts for people and pigeons outside the Capitol from roughly 1959 to 1989, a beloved figure recovering ...

Pfc. Harry LeBert was a young Marine and father of two who — having just recovered from injuries received in the Battle of ...

After surviving that attack, Drake went on to serve in the Battle of Saipan in the Marianas campaign of WWII's Pacific theater as well.He received the special Congressional Medal for the Veterans ...

Drake also witnessed the Battle of Saipan in the Mariana Islands, a turning point for the US in the conflict. Drake was just 23 and serving as an Army engineer at the time of the Japanese attack ...

Vaughn P. Drake Jr. was 23 years old and stationed at Kaneohe Naval Air Station in Oahu, Hawaii, when Japan launched the attack on the U.S. Pacific fleet.

The release notes that he also witnessed the Battle of Saipan in the Marianas and received the World War II Victory Medal and a special congressional medal honoring Pearl Harbor veterans.

A veteran believed to be the world’s oldest Pearl Harbor survivor has died at 106 years old. Vaughn P. Drake Jr. from ...

"The Battle of Tinian came right after the Battle of Saipan, and Claude and his men landed there on July 25, 1944," said James P. Gregory, director of LSU's William T. Brookshire Military Museum ...

Following Pearl Harbor, Drake fought in the Battle of Saipan in 1944 and later that year in the Marianas Campaign, which the National Parks Service said was the "most decisive battle of the ...