Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frerichs reunited a Purple Heart with the family of a World War II veteran after it was ...

Decades ago, as some of the bloodiest fighting in World War II ramped up in Europe, 19-year-old 1st Lt. Jeffersons Wiggins, ...

World War II heroes were honored throughout Canada and the United States yesterday and that reminded The Maven of a heroic ...

Chuck Leman lived an extraordinary life after surviving a German prison camp in World War II. In death, he still had more to ...

A Purple Heart is one of the most prestigious awards a member of the military can receive. Now, Illinois Treasurer Michael ...

The fields at Margraten would become one of 14 permanent overseas military cemeteries set aside for America’s World War II ...

A lost Purple Heart medal was given back to a World War II veteran's family 35 years after his death just in time for Veteran ...

Patty Knies didn’t know that her uncle, James Bennett, of Oak Lawn, received a Purple Heart after twice being wounded in World War II.

At 100 years old, World War II veteran Ben Lafon can still recall his journey from a Texas farm boy to a sergeant in the U.S.

As the Greatest Generation fades, the Fagen Fighters museum keeps its spirit alive with a display of the 'warbirds' that ...

The family of Army rifleman James R. Bennett, a World War II veteran from Illinois, has been reunited with his lost Purple ...

Wallace Goldfarb, 102, was one of the few who survived as ball turret gunners, flying 34 combat missions over France and ...