News

McKinney was supposed to be taking the hand of Joyce Ann Riley in marriage in Tulia, he found himself raising his own hands ...
It was 80 years ago, and the Germans had cleared a swath of land to build a World War II prisoner of-war camp ... chasing us down the road with dogs and bayonets,” Schrenk recalled.
When his company was ordered to take a hill during the Korean War's Operation Ripper, Sfc. Nelson Brittin led the way.
Long-term residents of a village near Petersfield have shared memories of their youth and their experiences during World War ...
Brittin served in Italy during World War II and discharged in 1946 ... a pocket of resistance in the form of fortified machine gun positions on a hill. Brittin volunteered to lead a squad to ...
In 1932, when it was inaugurated, it was divided and characterized as a "sacred work", but during the Occupation it became a ...
Converging on the world's largest office building late that Saturday afternoon, the crowd of some 100,000—estimates vary widely—encountered more than 2,500 rifle-wielding soldiers blocking ...
Prior to World War II the Communist Party in Soviet Russia utilized physical ... spectacles in the field of sports such as fencing with carbines to which rubber bayonets have been attached, still a ...
Bayonet training infuses aggression, warrior spirit, and elan in the hearts and minds of the soldiers being trained in it.
The very versatile J2F Duck was used first and foremost as an air-sea rescue aircraft. In the world of Mother Nature, the ...