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MOLINE, Ill. (KWQC) - The road around the Quad Cities International Airport known as 69th Avenue has a new name. The road is ...
The QC International Airport has renamed Airport Road to George Kirk Drive, honoring its first manager and decorated WWII ...
Long overdue war medals were presented to three sons. They were earned by their late father, Norman Blatner, a World War two veteran and a German prisoner of war.
In all, Mr. Marasco was awarded the American Campaign Medal, the European, African and Middle Eastern Campaign medals, the Asiatic Pacific Campaign medal, the WWII Victory medal, as well as the ...
106-year-old WWII veteran Charles McGregor from Edmond receives seven long-overdue military honors.
And while the unit's members received several medals upon its return to the U.S. in 1946, there was no welcoming ceremony or public recognition of their service.
DALTON, Ga. –– After waiting for 71 years, World War II veteran Clarence Richardson was finally presented with his medals of honor on Monday.
Peter Fantasia was awarded eight medals for his U.S. military service in a special ceremony Monday — a proud moment in the making for nearly 75 years. “God has been good. I don’t know what ...
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Genevieve and Samuel Jackson of Lackawanna sent five sons to the military in 1943. The brothers were among more than a million African-American GIs to serve in World War II ...
Roberta Russo, an amateur historian from Illinois, helped identify Jacobsen while researching WWII records. She saw four numbers stitched on the underwear of an unidentified U.S. solider buried in ...