Patrol torpedo boat PT-109 was built by the Electric Launch Company, now known as Elco Motor Yachts, headquartered in Bayonne, New Jersey. It was laid down on March 3, 1942, launched on June 20, 1942, ...

Disgraced former US Senator Bob Menendez weeps as he's sentenced to 11 years in prison in corruption case The best fried chicken chain in the US is not Chick-fil-A, according to diners.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday signed an order to rename Fort Liberty in North Carolina back to its original Fort ...

The ruptured eardrum qualified Pressel for the Purple Heart. But he wasn’t concerned ... David Sample met Pressel about 30 years ago at a World War II memorial week in Reading, Pa.

WWII veteran Tony Battaglia, who served as a medic in the Aleutian Islands Campaign and later moved to Honesdale, died Friday ...

After decades of discrimination, Vernon Baker was finally recognized for his heroism during an assault on a German stronghold ...

The following obituary is from the April 2, 2011 print edition of the Savage Pacer newspaper: Harold M. Hansen Harold Hansen, 85, of Savage, died Thursday, March 24, 2011 at his home. He was born in ...

No one was going to keep young Duane Tunnyhill from fighting in World War II, wearing the uniform of the United States Marines ... wound and earned him a Purple Heart. It also embedded black ...

The key criteria for those in the top-tier positions appear to be loyalty, wealth, and ideological fervor, not competence.

Vernon Baker is among the seven Black American troops to receive the Medal of Honor for their actions during WWII. (DOD ... received the Bronze Star and Purple Heart. After the German surrender ...