The dedication ceremony celebrated Ledford for his extraordinary combat heroism, a feat of survival and duty that earned him ...

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SAINTE-MERE-EGLISE, France — Army Staff Sgt. William Owens was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross at a ceremony Thursday for extraordinary heroism displayed during the Allied ...

A Black medic credited with treating many wounded soldiers on D-Day has been posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland announced Monday. Army ...

Woodson's story will also be told as part of a National Geographic docuseries, 'Erased: WW2’s Heroes of Color.' Waverly Woodson Jr, a Black medic who served in the only all-Black regiment to take part ...

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RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CACI International Inc (NYSE: CACI) announced today that Command Sgt. Maj. William “Bill” Thetford, U.S. Army (Ret.), Special Operations Forces Project Manager, has been ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Staff Sgt. Michael Ollis, a 10th Mountain Soldier who gave his life shielding Polish Army Lieutenant Karol Cierpica from a suicide bomber while deployed to Afghanistan in 2013, ...

DETROIT -- Life flipped upside down for Sgt. 1st Class Gregory Waters on July 30, 2008, when an improvised explosive device caused massive damage to his vehicle in Afghanistan, leaving him and his ...

Staff Sgt. William D. Owen's Bronze Star was posthumously upgraded to the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions during WWII. (Courtesy 505th Regimental Combat Team/James J. Ricci family ...