The French government is preparing to present Alan Kinder, a 100-year-old World War II veteran, with the Legion of Honor, the European country’s highest decoration.

With 2025 marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, Pillen has set out to honor all living WWII veterans across ... industrial feed mixers in Illinois, prompting need of a new ...

Hundreds of thousands of people gathered across Australia and New Zealand on Friday for dawn services and street marches to commemorate their war dead on Anzac Day.

Years later, in 1869, Grant became a U.S. president like his former Commander-in-Chief Lincoln had done, setting a precedent ...

Sypult said Gifford’s frustration with the rates charged by the Illinois Central spurred his decision to start the Punkin ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced that it will honor four prominent Americans with the prestigious ...

Joe Harris, believed to be the oldest surviving World ... spokesperson for WWII Beyond The Call, a nonprofit organization that works to document veterans’ accounts. After filling out his draft ...

The opening scene so accurately represented the fighting on D-Day that actual WWII veterans had to leave the ... action movies in general and Kim Jong Il (just to name a few).

When the Illinois State Historical Society has its Best of Illinois History Awards Luncheon on April 26 in Springfield, ...

Tighten up (from the top): Heritage Flight Museum founder and Apollo 8 veteran William Anders ... Cadet Training Program toward the end of World War II. He made his orientation flights at ...

On Thursday, East Flat Rock resident George Sarros celebrated his 100th birthday.