CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (CONGRESSMAN DERRICK VAN ORDEN PRESS RELEASE) - Today, Congressman Derrick Van Orden (WI-03) announced the securement of five military medals for Mr. Neil Korn of Chippewa Falls, ...

Washington — Members of the Ghost Army, a top-secret military unit credited with saving thousands of Americans during World War II using distraction techniques, received Congressional Gold Medals on ...

Sgt. Reece Martin had known for most of his life that his great uncle fought on the beaches of France during the D-Day invasion of June 1944 and died about a week later in battle. But there was little ...

Congress this week will bestow its highest civilian honor – the Congressional Gold Medal – on men who have been called combat con artists. They’re the soldiers of a long-secret unit known as the ...

Members of the World War II “Ghost Army” received Congress’ highest honor, the Congressional Gold Medal, at a ceremony on Thursday. The “Ghost Army” earned its name during the Allied advance into ...

Some 1,100 World War II soldiers who served in the so-called "Ghost Army" received long overdue recognition at the U.S. Capitol. During the war, they belonged to units that specialized in trickery to ...

Q: We recently had a family gathering where my sister said she believed my father, who is deceased, may have received three Purple Heart medals during World War II. I know he was wounded in the Battle ...

On former Western Front ground, detectorists revisit a landscape once crossed by Allied forces pushing toward victory.

The family of a World War II veteran has learned more about him after his great-grandson reached out to the internet for help. Leonard Lawson never met his great-grandfather Leonard Fredrick Pryor, ...