When Jeanie Hasenbeck first heard the news about the outbreak of war in Vietnam, she was 17. She had no idea that, four years later, she would be stationed at a Field Hospital in Long Binh, Vietnam, ...
Corporal Al Albrecht, and other men from the Ghost Army, stitched counterfeit patches onto their uniforms in WWII. These ...
Army private who died in WWII identified almost 80 years after his death - As the US marks Veterans Day, the story of a young soldier finally being returned home has been shared ...
About 8,500 sets of remains of soldiers killed in World War II also could not be identified. These were buried in American military cemeteries ... them to help with identification.
In the absence of that harmony, Falls Church resident Walter Medley, Jr., 95, and the Black enlisted men like him, looked to military service ... GIs during World War II and the 50s.
William Zana, the only guard of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to reach the rank of general, took a final shift on his last ...
Jeremiah P. Mahoney was killed in a pitched battle with German forces near Reipertswiller, France, in early 1945. New technology finally brought closure.
A young US Army soldier ... to the US for identification. The 19-year-old's remains were among those found, but due to technological limitations no one could positively identify them. He — and the ...
Syracuse, Nebraska — Gerri Eisenhauer's father, Army Pvt. William Walters, was shipped off to World War II before she was even born. In 1944, her family got back his body and a U.S. government ...
It's called "Unfaltering Courage: The Diaries of TSgt. Raymond Vachon, a World War II Army Air Corps Flight Engineer and B-24 Top Turret Gunner in the Mediterranean Theater." Dennis Vachon used ...