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07/18/11 Ralph Lloyd McDonald of Mansfield, left, listens and retired Lt. Col. Steve Gray reads about McDonald's exploits while he served in the U.S. Army during World War II. McDonald received the Bronze Star in a ceremony at the Hartford Senior Center on Monday, June 27, 2011.
07/18/11 LA MIRADA - World War II veteran Abe Boyarsky did something Monday he hasn't done since Jan. 1, 2008.
07/18/11 After 66 years, an airman who was killed overseas while on a courier mission during World War II will finally be laid to rest in his native Vermont. Lt. Ray Fletcher's remains arrived at Albany International Airport today.
07/17/11 91 year old Leon Crooks receives bronze star for his service in World War II.
07/17/11 By Matthew Burdette Journal City Editor Editor's note: The Journal's annual Unsung Heroes feature profiles local veterans who served in wars and conflicts from World War II to the present.
07/17/11 On June 29, 1948 over 600 men from around the country waited for the results of the U.S. Bureau of Land Reclamation's homestead lottery which would award 54 mostly World War II veterans free parcels of land to farm in Yuma County.
07/17/11 Homemaker had worked on bomber planes at Martin during World War II Anna Iris Ray Meyer, who joined the war effort in the 1940s by working on bomber planes as a "Rosie the Riveter," died July 14 at her daughter's home in Fallston. She was 92.
07/16/11 BENNINGTON -- A former World War II-era Army firing range in Bennington is among 15 former ranges and live-fire munitions sites around the state that the Army will look over this fall to ensure no dangerous ordinance remains.
07/16/11 Hanover's Dick Benner and John Wolfe of West Manchester Township both served the U.S. during World War II in their own way.
07/15/11 A CANCER survivor has committed to print her childhood memories of life on a croft in Caithness. Marigold Stewart had always wanted to write a book about her experience growing up in the post-World War Two times of austerity.
07/15/11 This week's collection of iOS apps is all about castle defense games. The first has a World War I feel as you battle your enemies across a series of dug in trenches. The second lets you play as a character from the popular Evil Dead franchise as you fight off skeletons and other ghoulish enemies. The third is a new game where you'll choose from three different races to fight your enemies in a ...
07/15/11 "You lead from the front."That's an old quote from Audie Murphy, the legendary World War II combat hero, movie star and Texas native.
07/14/11 A section of a Vernon Parish highway was renamed in June for a veteran who died while serving his country in World War II.
07/14/11 Michele Ragusa and Timothy Gulan will swing down memory lane in For the Boys, the stage musical adaptation of the 1991 World War II-set film, which will debut Aug. 17 at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, IL.
07/14/11 I've always loved history and this column has allowed me the opportunity to meet men and women who lived through this country's history, especially World War II.
07/14/11 IRON MOUNTAIN - The grand opening of the World War II Glider and Military Museum will be held on Sunday, July 17, 11 a.m. through 5 p.m.
07/14/11 Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced Wednesday that he is recommending to Congress the establishment of a national historical park in Oak Ridge, Tenn. and other locations to commemorate the Manhattan Project, the top-secret effort to create an atomic bomb during World War II.
07/14/11 World War II Army veteran Wilbert Miller, 90, originally of Bridgeton, takes his best roll during a weekly bowling afternoon at the New Jersey Veterans Memorial Home in Vineland on Wednesday.
07/13/11 PLEASANT HILL -- Marianne Gage writes about what it was like growing up in the 1930s and 1940s, living through the Depression, the "Okie" migration spurred by the Dust Bowl and by World War II.
07/13/11 Born Aug. 21, 1916, in New York City, he was the son of the late William Scholz and Rachel Schwaber. He earned a B.A. from the University of Michigan and an M.A. from New York University . He worked as a journalist and served in the Army throughout World War II, rising to the rank of colonel.
07/13/11 On Wednesday afternoon, two World War II B-17 bombers will transmit a radio message using the warbird's WW II-era radios at the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum. | 
