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In the U.S Coast Guard's over 200-year-old history, only one of its members has ever been awarded the Medal of Honor. Signalman First Class Douglas Munro earned the decoration posthumously in ...
Francis Harp, a Vietnam Veteran who attended Tallahassee Honor Flight 2025, shared the story of a neighborhood friend who passed away just a few short weeks after boot camp.
Standing beneath the shade of trees outside of Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital, Lottie Chatman holds a decades-old bottle of ...
Shuttered military museum plans to move collection to NC after not finding another home. It hopes to leave legacy of Citadel ...
The National Medal of Honor Museum in Arlington offers patriotic displays of soldiers who performed extraordinary acts of ...
Tom Kelly spent his last day in High Point on Nov. 27, 1969, celebrating Thanksgiving with his family. They ate turkey and enjoyed being together, trying not to dwell on where Tom was headed. They ...
REED CITY — Northern Michigan said goodbye to a heroic Vietnam War veteran ... that Ned took two broken M60 machine guns and pieced together one working gun and opened fire.
Consequently, American troops fighting in “The ‘Nam” had to be ready for Viet Cong guerrilla ambushes or light infantry ...
“Our machine was devastating. And versatile,” war correspondent Michael ... who was a Marine helicopter door gunner during the height of the fighting in Vietnam in the late 1960s.
More than 50 years after the Vietnam War gripped the world's attention ... M-16 and the M-60 machine gun known as “the pig” by American troops for its bulky size and high rate of fire.
(AP Photo/Aniruddha Ghosal) DA NANG, Vietnam (AP) — The Vietnam War ended on April 30 ... out a suspicious shadow in a tree to his machine gunner as they move on patrol near the Cambodian ...
In the years that followed, he survived the battles of Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian and Okinawa – despite being a machine gunner ... Korean War veterans and 85 veterans of the Vietnam War.