First things first: Legends don’t need middle names. “It’s Smokey Bear, not Smokey the Bear,” says Sara Lee (pictured), lead librarian for special collections at the National Agricultural Library (NAL ...
Donald McPherson of Adams served his country as a Navy fighter pilot during World War II. When he returned home, his mission of service continued. “He was up to his eyeballs in service in all sorts of ...
STOPPERS DOT. A VETERAN IS FINALLY GETTING THE RECOGNITION HE DESERVES. PEOPLE DRIVING HOURS TO RED OAK, IOWA THIS AFTERNOON TO CELEBRATE. 99 YEAR-OLD AL HAYES HAYES IS A WORLD WAR TWO VETERAN AND ...
Arizona recently paid tribute to Major Fannie Griffin-McClendon, a remarkable 104-year-old World War II veteran and the last surviving member of the all-black, all-female 6888th Central Postal ...
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii, Aug. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Twenty-two World War II Veterans will be present as the 80th Commemoration of the End of World War II kicks off at Pearl Harbor on Saturday, August ...
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Texas has been home to many imaginative scientists, artists, and writers. Because of their dreams and determination, they changed how people saw the world. One Texas writer in particular, Gene ...
A “public celebration of life will be planned in Cincinnati at a later date” for Gary Burbank, the beloved WLW-AM personality who died Aug. 28 at age 84. The obituary was posted Tuesday by a Highlands ...
The Battleship North Carolina has a Vought OS2U-3 Kingfisher plane on display that was not originally part of the ship's WWII service. This Kingfisher crashed in Canada in 1942, was recovered in 1964, ...