A sailor in Hawaii and a soldier in the Phillippines were the first and last Medal of Honor recipients of World War II.

It’s April 8, 1940 and HMS Glowworm is in the North Sea. Commanded by Captain Gerard Broadmead Roope, it became separated ...

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During one sortie in June 1918, he took on 13 German scouts at once, shooting two of them down and emerging unscathed. His medal group, including a Military Cross and Distinguished Flying Cross ...

She wasn’t exactly expecting to find herself with an Olympic medal, either. Even as it was being placed around her neck. The ...

The Goethe Medal honours public figures from all over the world – for some time now three cultural notables from different regions each year – who have rendered outstanding services to international ...

Who knows?" Mr Stevenson said the vendor was a British doctor who had a "large collection of German Third Reich medals". He said some countries like France ban the sale of Third Reich items ...

This is an exact replica of the medal designed in Germany to commemorate ... She was torpedoed by a German U-boat on 7 May 1915 and sank in eighteen minutes, eight miles off the Old Head of ...

On the Path to Power When the games were over, Germany declared itself the winner with 89 German medals to 56 for the Americans. The Nazi regime returned with renewed vigor to their policies of ...

West German sliders wear egg-shaped helmets en route to three medals and thus are dubbed “The Coneheads.” The aerodynamic headgear is subsequently outlawed. Taiwan’s Huang Liu-Chong records what is ...