Iris Cummings Critchell, who displayed her derring-do in the water and in the air, swimming with the U.S. Olympic team at the 1936 Summer Games, flying with the WASPs during World War II and ...
Vernon Baker finally received a Medal of Honor for his heroism during World War II ... Army, which was slowly, steadily fighting its way through mountainous terrain and well-prepared German ...
Brazil was the only South American country to send troops overseas in World War II. Throughout the Battle of the Atlantic, German U-boats patrolled Brazil’s coast, sinking some 34 vessels and ...
The unprecedented carnage of World War I resulted in the treaty’s being amended at the 38-nation Third Geneva Convention in 1929. But in World War II ... hundreds of German prisoners were ...