A NEW PORTRAIT of a war heroine has been unveiled, nearly 80 years after her tragic death. Special Operations Executive field ...

A NEW PORTRAIT of a war heroine has been unveiled, nearly 80 years after her tragic death. Special Operations Executive field operative Violette Szabo was executed at Ravensbruck concentration camp at ...

Working in this capacity at the front line on explosives and war gases, he earned the Croix de Guerre and membership of the Legion of Honour.

She escaped the racism of her native America to find global fame in France. Her 1949 memoir, published for the first time in English, captures Baker’s joyful voice ...

West Palm Beach centenarian Franklin Simon, who celebrated his 100th birthday in June, served heroically in Europe during ...

A replica of Cher Ami, the US Signal Corps pigeon that was awarded the "Croix de Guerre" by the ... [+] French government in WWI for heroic service after flying over France wounded 25 miles in 25 ...

One was worse, between 1942-45 during World War II. For New York hockey fans, the bizarre saga unfolded after the Rangers won ...

He also received two French Croix de Guerre with palms. Private Serna was discharged from the U.S. Army in May 1919 and returned to El Paso. He married Simona Jimenez, and in 1924, finally became ...

The French army neurosurgeon and pilot known as “Mademoiselle Helicopter" flew more than 160 wounded men from the ...

Members won medals, including the Croix de Guerre, Medal of Honor, and Distinguished Service Cross. One member, Henry Johnson, posthumously won the Medal of Honor, America’s highest military award.

During World War II, he served as a battery commander and captain in General George Patton’s 696th Armored Field Army, earning the Purple Heart, the Bronze Star, five Combat Stars and the Croix de ...

Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Raff Woolcock DSO Croix de Guerre; Lt (later Captain) Stanley Richard Warry; Capt Ewing George Thomson MC (10th Field Ambulance attached to 42nd Battalion); Lt John Findlay; ...