Pedro Vera drove an Army ambulance, ferrying the wounded to field hospitals, on D-Day and at the Battle of the Bulge. Somehow ...

In the wee hours of September 5, 1942, Japanese destroyers sank the USS Gregory in the Southwest Pacific. Mess Attendant 1st Class Charles Jackson French immediately began piling as many wounded men ...

Waits Italy's Signing. In the same historic railway coach where Germany surrendered in 1918 to the World War Allies, the French-German armistice was signed in a brief but dramatic ceremony at 6:50 ...

Rarely noted in official records of 1825 U.S. tour, the Marquis de Lafayette's short stop in Culpeper was documented in detail by Minuteman Capt. Philip Slaughter.