A chance discovery reveals an 80 year old story of battlefield sacrifice, adding new chapters to the history of two families.
When Margery Hop Wong bade her older brother goodbye in 1943, she was just a 12-year-old girl who loved it when he took her ...
A Medal of Honor recipient’s portrait and citation are now out of a courthouse closet and back up on a courthouse wall. The Bluefield Daily Telegraph recently ran a letter to the editor from Ed ...
A vast archive of letters sent by relatives of soldiers missing in World War One seeking the help of Spain's King Alfonso ...
A Medal of Honor recipient's portrait and citation are now out of a courthouse closet and back up on a courthouse wall. The Bluefield Daily Telegraph recently ran a letter to the editor from Ed ...
Margery Hop Wong last saw her older brother Sgt. Yuen Hop in 1943. He was a soldier missing in action, until researchers ...
Fallet French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research The ring was inscribed with his wedding date — Dec. 25, 1908 — and the body was identified as a German soldier from ...
The historic vessel "Vital de Oliveira" was positively identified more than a decade after an unsuspecting fisherman's net got caught on the shipwreck.
Elements from A Company (less a section), B Company (less 9 Platoon), and C Company boarded the Costa Rica, which was sunk by German aircraft shortly after. The men were rescued and taken to Crete by ...
The 20 frontal and profile portraits of ten Algerian soldiers who visited Paris in 1863 were taken by Philippe-Jacques Potteau as part of his larger anthropological project for the Muséum national ...
Alan Pollock is a Playwright and author of ‘The Bear Who Went To War: The true story of Wotjek the bear cub adopted by Polish soldiers in World War Two’. He joins Seán to discuss.
After the policy forbidding German Jews from serving in the U.S. military was changed during World War II, Pins joined the ... came in 1990 when a former soldier published his memoir.