A hero remembers the Battle of the Bulge
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After 58 years of marriage, Lyle Bouck and his wife, Lucy, are still helping each other down the front walk.
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DRESDEN, Germany -- Sixty years ago today, 15-year-old Karl-Ludwig Hoch ran for a bomb shelter just as the first illumination rounds lit up the sky, and as waves of Allied warplanes began pounding the city with incendiary bombs.
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Richard Paull, a survivor of the attack that launched America into World War II, hopes to attend an event in Strongsville Saturday to support US troops now fighting in Iraq.
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Late in World War II, in the Po Valley of northern Italy, Sgt. Wallace German spotted an unusual sight -- a German plane attacking the American lines.
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The handshake is firm, the gaze is clear and the expression still alert. At 106, Ferdinand Gilson can never get out of his mind the six months he spent in the trenches of the Western Front.
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Almost 60 years after the Battle of the Bulge, Ralph Shackelford of Platte County answered the call again.
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The remains of an unknown soldier from New Zealand killed in France 90 years ago during World War I arrived to an emotion-laden Maori and military welcome.
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When a retired Serbian general, Vladimir Lazarevic, agreed to surrender to the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague last month, he was treated here like a national hero.
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Turns out he was carrying a souvenir from World War II for nearly six decades: A bullet to the knee.
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not from books, movies or a TV miniseries, but because he was there. He remembers Dec. 16, 1944, when the field phone rang in the command
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In snow and a chilling wind, US veterans and the king of Belgium paid tribute to Allied forces who, in a freezing winter 60 years ago, repulsed the last big German counter-attack of World War II.
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For the few surviving inmates of Mauthausen concentration camp, one visitor in the autumn of 1941 left an indelible memory.
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IT WAS THE LAST great German offensive of World War II, and it began in Belgium 60 years ago today. Although it seldom generates the sort of tributes afforded D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge deserves to be commemorated.
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Veterans of the Battle of Arnhem re-enact the famous air drop to mark its 60th anniversary.
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Coworkers pay tribute to a devoted and thoughtful leader.
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As a child, Dr. Walter Goforth, M.D., probably never imagined he'd someday be parachuting into France on D-Day and return there after 60 years to receive one of the nation's highest honors.
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With the Battle of the Bulge raging in western Europe during World War II, workers at a Brunswick shipyard were determined to deliver one more ship by year's end.