Morrison brought a copy of the letter with him when he visited Italy earlier this year – the same time a group from Fort Drum were there to observe the 80th anniversary of the 10th Mountain Division’s ...

Private Ken Ward-Harvey was lucky to survive his first encounter with the enemy at the Battle of El Alamein in Egypt in 1942. Ward-Harvey, a ­combat engineer or “sapper” with the 2/7th Field Company, ...