When Army Sgt. Charles Richard Long offered to stay behind and cover his fellow soldiers’ backs as they escaped a…
During the Civil War, the Union Navy worked to capture various Confederate forts and cut off southern ports from precious…
When Army Master Sgt. Nicholas Oresko talked about the most pivotal actions he took during World War II, he often…
PALMDALE — It was a choice many young men of earlier generations needed to make quickly: some form of reform…
During the last frigid winter of World War II, Army Tech. Sgt. Charles Andrew MacGillivary and his company found themselves…
Navy Seaman 1st Class James Richard Ward only had moments to decide what to do on the sinking USS Oklahoma…
Alvin Callum York was born in 1887 in a log cabin in the Indian Creek area of Fentress County, Tenn….
Bruce A. Wilber Jr. was born in June 1957 on the Menominee Indian Reservation in Keshana, Wisc., as the oldest…
Octaviano Gallegos Jr. was born in May 1967 to Mexican immigrant parents. One of six children, Gallegos grew up working…
Second Lt. William McGowan served with the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. Originally from Minnesota, McGowan…
