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Receiving the Medal of Honor requires the recipient to commit to an action that risks their life "above and beyond the call...

Col. James Jabara, who once ate 20 carrots a day to improve his eyesight, was hailed as America's first jet ace and, by some...

Singer Karen Waldrup teamed up with 101st Airborne veteran Jim "Pee Wee" Martin to sing about his experiences on D-Day.

Former Miami minister John G. Burkhalter landed on Omaha Beach as chaplain for the "Fighting First." He penned this letter to...

World War II veteran Leon Weckstein recalls the day he almost destroyed Pisa's most famous landmark.

Sam M. Gibbons, who later represented Florida in the U.S. Congress, was a 24-year-old captain in the 501st Parachute Infantry...

World War II veteran Bill Geiger, whose pilot was a West Pointer, wanted to be a pilot all my life.

World War II veteran Carl Carson chronicles what it was like to survive the bombing of the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor on Dec...

As a coxswain of an LCVP landing craft during Operation Overlord, George Thomas Poe had one of the most unique views and...

August Leo Thomas was a coxswain on LCT 633 during Operation Overlord. He gives a firsthand account of the landings that took...