Buddies meet again more than 50 years after heroic action on battlefield
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It was March, 1945. With the Battle of the Bulge and the crossing of the Rhine River behind them, U.S. troops were swiftly moving across flat country toward Berlin.
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The remains of an Australian soldier killed during the Vietnam War were returned home to a ceremonial welcome on Wednesday, 36 years after his helicopter was shot down by enemy fire.
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BLACK Watch troops returned to the relative safety of Basra yesterday after a controversial month-long mission in Iraqâs &quot;triangle of death&quot;, during which five of their comrades died.
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OVERLAND PARK, Kansas  - David Lane was only 20 when he died and little-known outside a close circle of family, friends, and fellow soldiers in the U.S. Army.
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Forty-one years ago today, President John F. Kennedy was gunned down during a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. Now, a British video game company recreates one of the darkest moments in recent US political history.
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PARIS : Parisians turned out to see French and US military columns roll through their capital in an exuberant re-enactment of the day 60 years ago when Allied forces liberated the city from German occupation.
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NGOC LAC, Vietnam -- Former Navy aviator J.B. Souder returned to this northern mountain village this month and met Le Ba Tuc, who had taken Souder captive after he was shot down here in 1972. The two embraced and couldn't stop grinning. ''Thank you for not killing me," Souder joked.
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BELGRADE, Dec 6 (IPS) - The meeting of several hundred World War II  veterans last weekend would not have meant much, had it not been  convened in a town that symbolises so many things about a country  that no longer exists, Yugoslavia.
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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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As a retired pilot himself, Roy W. Roush knows a good aviator holds the elevation steady while gliding through the clouds. In the 15 years he was friends with space pioneer Leroy Gordon Cooper, Roush flew
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EAGLE BASE, TUZLA, Bosnia and Herzegovina- Soldiers from Stabilization Force 15, along with commanders past and present of Task Force Eagle and other Multinational Task Forces throughout SFOR, gathered to bring ...
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The remains of an Australian soldier  killed during the Vietnam War were returned home to a  ceremonial welcome on Wednesday, 36 years after his helicopter  was shot down by enemy fire.
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During the Battle of the Bulge, which started 60 years ago today, Pvt. Joe Manoni made one of those fateful, almost psychic, decisions.
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Several hundred mainly British World War II veterans gathered to commemorate one of the darkest moments in the British army's long history: the slaughter at Arnhem Bridge 60 years ago.
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Veterans of the bombing of the Sir Galahad in the Falklands War are to a service on its 25th anniversary.
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Over the years, the ground has produced some of the most endearing moments between the two countries. In the 1969-70 series, the match produced a shoot-out between two of the best post-war
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The Hundred Year War soldiered on through the drizzle yesterday, with its participants simultaneously honoring past heroes while waiting for the emergence of new ones.