South Korea native Ben Chon waited at the American Legion in Portage Saturday to surprise Bill Grove, a 95-year-old Korean War veteran, with the Ambassador for Peace Medal from the government of South ...

Belgium was slower to pledge its troops to the war but Behr remembers well the creation of Belgium's first volunteer battalion. The Belgian volunteers were known for their brown berets and uniforms.

The Broadway musical “Hamilton” and the historian whose book inspired it are getting the National Constitution Center’s ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday that the USNS Harvey Milk will be renamed after a World War II sailor who ...

Clifton Truman Daniel, grandson of the 33rd U.S. President Harry Truman, remembers his grandfather as "grandpa" who was a ...

After 72 years, a local war hero gets his due Millbrook native Pfc. Charlie Johnson died saving his compatriots in the Korean War. This month — after decades of advocacy following a middle ...

Only one MID may be worn on any one medal. Note that the insignia, when issued under British regulations for the Second World War and the Korean conflict, was worn at an angle, stalk down.

Home Timeline Origins Australians in Korea Australian Operations Weapons of War Faces of War Armistice and Aftermath Glossary Kujin/Broken Bridge - 25-26 October 1950 After Yongju, the 3rd Battalion, ...

Colonel Ralph Puckett, Jr., a Medal of Honor recipient from the Korean War, will lie in honor in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, Congress' leaders announced on Tuesday.

He declared it to be genuine. “I don’t have any doubt this is an authentic World War II-era Medal of Honor, but how this medal came to be is a mystery,” Cottone told reporter Rogers.

The president of the United States makes a lot of tough decisions. It’s hard to order troops into battle and even more difficult to notify families that their loved ones died as a result. More than 33 ...

It has been 70 years since the guns on the Korean peninsula fell silent, a result of thousands of Canadians and other United Nations allies defending the democratic south from the Communist north. The ...