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The following is a portion of a letter from the American Red Cross, written on April 10, 1919, addressed to Charles H. Durre, Edgewood, Illinois. The subject was Private Lawrence E. Durre, 2307277, ...
The “Soldier Boy” statue that used to stand outside Effingham’s VFW Theodore Hoffman Post 1769 has been restored and rededicated after several decades. In 1919, Nellie Boyd designed and created a life ...
After eight decades, one family is finally getting the closure they've been looking for. A Houston soldier who died during the D-Day Invasion has been identified and is finally coming home.
A missile killed Diana Koshyk and her unborn son in the hospital where she was being treated, near a building Ukrainian ...
On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb called "Little Boy" was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
Defense Department officials acknowledged that a recently identified World War II soldier was not from Detroit. The errors were uncovered after the Free Press spotted inconsistencies in Defense ...
The bodies of eight British servicemen who died more than 100 years ago in World War One have been laid to rest in a reburial service in France. It took place at the Loos British cemetery last ...
World War 2 soldier from Fulton accounted for, will get proper burial (Photo provided) ...
Eighty years after a U.S. airman went missing in World War II, his family has received a token to remember him by.
With the dropping of two atom bombs, 80 years ago this month, humanity reached a tipping point in Hiroshima and Nagaski.
To Jakab, World War I aviation did not directly affect the outcome of the war but “matured” over its course. “It was really sort of the laboratory for aviation,” Jakab says.
Sitting around a campfire, they hold candles to commemorate their missing loved ones. The gentle slopes of Ukraine's ...