A Great Dane named Juliana is credited with being awarded a medal during World War II after she defused a bomb by urinating on it. The claim is true — and, in fact, Juliana was honored with a ...

in wheelchair at right, join military and congressional officials as members of their secretive WWII-era unit are presented with the Congressional Gold Medal during a ceremony on Capitol Hill ...

“I don’t have any doubt this is an authentic World War II-era Medal of Honor, but how this medal came to be is a mystery,” Cottone told reporter Rogers. I circled back with Laura ...

OPELOUSAS — The Rev. Joseph Verbis Lafleur, the St. Landry priest who became a U.S. Army Air Corps chaplain in World War II and then a ... stranger to heroics. Or medals. Just the day after ...

in wheelchair at right, join military and congressional officials as members of their secretive WWII-era unit are presented with the Congressional Gold Medal during a ceremony on Capitol Hill ...

Caponigro was also awarded the World War II Victory Medal, the American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, Combat Action Ribbon, Honorable Service Ribbon, Navy ...

A Marine on Okinawa received a Joint Service Achievement Medal for his role in recovering WWII remains on Guadalcanal.

Close to 15 million Americans served in the military during World War II. But the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest award for combat bravery, was awarded just 473 times. The first was awarded ...

The medals Smith recently received included the World War II Victory Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Theater medal, American Defense Medal, China Service Medal, Navy Occupation Medal and Navy Good Conduct ...