After nearly 80 years, a World War II veteran is getting the medals he earned for his service, but never received. Roald Zvonik spent two years on a boat in the Asiatic-Pacific theater ...

"Woody" Williams, the last remaining Medal of Honor recipient from World War II, will lie in honor at ... valor at Iwo Jima and throughout the Pacific Theater helped power an American victory ...

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

DeLeo received the American Campaign Medal, Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal with three Bronze Service Stars, World War II Victory Medal ... ship entered the Pacific Theatre of WWII and participated ...

Close to 15 million Americans served in the military during World War II ... to receive the Medal of Honor. The attacks on Pearl Harbor pulled the U.S. into war in both the Pacific and Europe ...

More than a million Black men wore the uniform of the United States in World War II, and many of them saw ... a quartermaster bound for the Pacific Theater. He had barely arrived in the region ...

Services were held Monday for Gilbert "Gil" Nadeau, who survived kamikaze attacks while serving aboard a Navy landing craft in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Nadeau died Oct. 19 ...

A World War II veteran received the Congressional Gold ... He would later transport German prisoners of war to North Africa. In the Pacific theater, Kolis would go to Pearl Harbor and then through ...

The medals Mertens received were: Asiatic Pacific Combat Medal World War 2 Victory Medal Honorable Discharge Button Honorable Service Lapel Pin (The Ruptured Duck) Mertens' family has made a ...

World War II: The Pacific Theater takes you inside the sweeping story of the American fight against the Japanese. Taught by Professor Craig L. Symonds, a distinguished military historian at the US ...