A WWII veteran’s sons hope to give his long-lost Purple Heart medal to his grandson, who also served in the Army and had a special bond with him.
Harry Chandler, a Navy corpsman who witnessed the Pearl Harbor ... in September 1941 and was assigned to Mobile Hospital No. 2, a complex of metal huts perched on the hillside of Aiea Heights ...
For the average American, the Army-Navy football game is normally a curiosity at best and an afterthought at worst. On Dec. 2, 1944, however, the Black Knights and Midshipmen clashed in a matchup ...
according to the National World War II Museum. Nearly half of the people killed that day were USS Arizona crewmen. Chandler said his corpsman training kicked in, leaving little room for fear.
Two Battle of the Bulge veterans, officials and supporters gathered Monday at the World War II Memorial’s Circle ... The veterans, retired Army Senior Master Sgt. Harry Miller, 96, and retired ...