A free symposium at the museum Feb. 15 will look at African American engagment in World War II and its place in social ...

It was established by President Harry S. Truman (as the Medal of Freedom) in 1945 to honor service during World War II. President John F. Kennedy reintroduced the recognition as the Presidential ...

President Biden presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 people ... but Forgotten Warplanes of World War II Canadian PM Justin Trudeau to announce resignation as early as Monday: report ...

West Palm Beach centenarian Franklin Simon, who celebrated his 100th birthday in June, served heroically in Europe during ...

A 100-year-old veteran in York County received his Purple Heart 80 years later. “The Purple Heart means quite a bit,” ...

j.g. John Koelsch was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism as a ... as a torpedo bomber pilot in the last months of World War II and was promoted to lieutenant junior grade on ...

As decades went by, Simmons rarely, if ever, volunteered that she worked as a welder at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II. But she was one of the estimated ... last year with the ...

President Joe Biden on Friday posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor to five minority ... according to the National World War II Museum. More than 4,000 Purple Hearts were among the numerous ...

The U.S. Postal Service is set to release stamps commemorating World War II Medal of Honor recipients during a First-Day-of-issue dedication ceremony on Veterans Day at the National World War II ...

Five World War II veterans received an 80 Years of Victory Medal at the Veterans Club in Beatrice on Friday. Scott Bates, the ...