Veterans Association Mistakenly Overpaying Its Beneficiaries
Irene Miller is a 95-year-old World War II veteran who was receiving monthly payments for years from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The VA…
World War II Hero Declared Dead After 71 Years Missing, But His Fate Remains A Mystery
Raoul Wallenberg, the World War II hero that is credited with saving over 20,000 Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust, was pronounced dead by the Swedish…
Group Effort To Trace Relatives Successfully Returns Service Book
A soldier’s record of service from World War II is on the way to the relatives of its former owner thanks to police, family history,…
The Crew Of This WW1 Sub Claimed They Were Attacked By A Sea Monster – Now The Wreck Has Been Found
While laying an undersea power line, Scottish engineers discovered a World War I German submarine on the sea floor. Experts believe that the wreck is…
The Solution To A Small, Personal World War Two Mystery – Medals For Navy Service Returned To The Rightful Owner
The mystery surrounding an American sailor’s WW2 medals has been solved. The medals were left in an old dresser, which was then donated to charity. Nobody…
Awesome 81-Year-Old Pilot Flies WW2 Spitfire Back To His Old School, Does Victory Roll
Undoubtedly, there are many pilots, commercial and private, who envy 81-year-old Brian Lockwood. He got to fly a Spitfire, that legendary fighter of Battle of…
A Hundred Years On From The Horror Of Gallipoli, A Flag From The Battlefield Returns Home
A Red Cross flag has taken over 100 years and thousands of kilometers to return home to Australia from Gallipoli, Turkey where it flew over…
Bikini Atoll, Used To Test Nukes Decades Ago, Is Still Too Radioactive To Start Resettling
Bikini Atoll, the string of islands that the U.S. used as nuclear testing grounds between 1946 and 1958, is still too radioactive to be inhabited.…
This Confederate Blockade Runner Was Built In Scotland But Never Made It To The War
The Confederacy during the American Civil War came tantalizingly close to having its own ship for delivering supplies to Southern ports blockaded by the U.S.…
Japanese-American Veterans of WWII Shared Their Stories On Veterans Day
Robert Yano and Robert Izumi are Japanese-Americans who fought during World War II. They spoke about their time in the service during events for Veterans…
American Fifth Grade Kids Write Letters To Brighten A Veteran’s Day
Fifth graders in Shepherd, Texas, read about a World War II veteran on Facebook. They’ve never met Gardner Hill, but Ms. Christy’s class at Shepherd…
104-Year-Old World War II Veteran And Retired Judge Has Some Good Advice For Long Life
The first African-American lawyer selected to a federal seat as a judge has words of advice given him by his father if reaching 100 years…