A collection of rare medals belonging to a Battle of France war hero who survived being captured by the Germans is set to ...

There must be some way out of here… Before Ukraine declared it was ready to agree to a proposed 30-day ceasefire after the US ...

Korea, 1954, Japan, 1955, Thailand, 1956, France ... awards and decorations include the Distinguished Service Cross, the Legion of Merit, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Bronze Star Medal ...

By the war's end, he would famously receive every medal for valor the United States offered, along with three Purple Hearts for his trouble. Lt. Gen. Alexander Patch awards the Legion of Merit and ...

The writer, teacher and activist once said he wrote his memoir "Night," about his Holocaust experiences in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps run by the Nazis during World War II, "for ...

A medal awarded to a homing pigeon who helped the Dutch resistance during World War Two has been unveiled at a museum. Tommy, ...

A British veteran who ‘told a little fib’ to get into the army when he was just 16 has been honoured with France’s highest medal for his role in the Second World War, 80 years on.

When Royal Australian Air Force Chaplain Haydn Lea spotted four World War II medals ... medals," he told Mark Gibson on ABC Radio Perth. "The medals themselves were OK, but the ribbons attached ...

A British veteran who ‘told a little fib’ to get into the army when he was just 16 has been honoured with France’s highest medal for his role in the Second World War, 80 years on. Dennis Smith, 98, ...

The moment Major James Earl's medals were returned to his son David ... he then served in Normandy after D-Day as the Allies pushed through France. After the war, he worked for his wife Beryl's ...