The Combat Medical Badge (CMB) is one of the least known but most revered of Army awards. Established in 1945 by the War Department, it was a companion to the Combat Infantryman Badge that recognized ...

After decades of discrimination, Vernon Baker was finally recognized for his heroism during an assault on a German stronghold ...

Bryant, at the time 23 -years-old, was assigned to Company B, 4th Ranger Battalion, a unit known as Darby's Rangers.

Las Cruces native James Flowers trained the Tuskegee Airmen, who flew combat missions in Europe that earned them medals and a ...

African American troops line up, National Archives The military's view toward African Americans during World War II reflected that of the wider American culture. According to a report commissioned ...

Mahoney, 19, a U.S. Army private from Chicago ... of the Missing at Epinal American Cemetery in Dinozé, France, along with others still missing from World War II, and a rosette will be placed ...

“I stepped from my school desk into the war,” she says. She became a combat medic and served with the Soviet forces for four years. One day, as she was helping ferry a wounded soldier across ...