WWII Veteran Awarded Purple Heart For D-Day Heroics Looks Back 70 Years Later
John Shick watched people die to his left and right and never felt he was going to be among the casualties.
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John Shick watched people die to his left and right and never felt he was going to be among the casualties.
A Stanford University professor arrested at Los Angeles International Airport for allegedly having a grenade in his luggage says he was returning from his late father's home with the World War II-era souvenir.
Walter D. Ehlers died Thursday at a Long Beach hospital of kidney failure. He was 92, and his passing leaves only seven surviving World War II Medal of Honor recipients.
Thanks to a member of Congress, a World War II veteran's stolen medals have been replaced.
A Fullerton couple who married on New Year's Eve is pleading for the return of a valuable family keepsake lost on their wedding day.
A New Year's Day Rose Parade float will honor the unsung heroes of World War II—female aviators.
Hundreds gathered at events throughout the Southland in honor of Veterans Day Monday.
A high school in Downey is honoring former students who lost their lives in World War II.
A Costa Mesa great-grandfather was awarded France's highest civilian honor nearly seventy years after he enlisted to fight in World War II.
On the 69th anniversary of D-Day, a veteran soldier recalled forecasting the weather to help save lives during World War II.
A large amount of military ordnance from World War II have been cleared after being discovered at a home.
On Sunday, decades after he won it, Hyla Merin will receive her father's Purple Heart, along with a Silver Star she never knew he'd won and a half-dozen other medals.
John Wells, a 93-year-old World War II pilot, recently returned to Australia for a plaque dedication in honor of the 22nd Bomb Group.
Hidden deep in the hills above Pacific Palisades lie the remnants of a secret compound that housed Nazi sympathizers during World War II.
A new documentary has opened chronicling the first internment camps that opened during World War II here in Southern California.
The University of Southern California is tracking down Japanese-American students who never got to complete their degrees because they were sent to internment camps during World War II.
Burglars messed with the wrong senior when they decided to break into Jack Goodwin's Baldwin Hills home.
The USS Iowa -- a World War II era battleship -- is about to become a floating museum in San Pedro.
Navajo Code Talker Joe Morris, one of more than 400 American Indians who used the language of ancestors to relay secret battlefield orders during World War II, has died in California at 85.
A foreclosure home cleanup crew has found a World War II practice bomb in a Southern California backyard.
A World War II airman has been buried in California 67 years after his bomber crashed on a southwest Pacific island.
67 years to the day that he and 11 others vanished in a B-24 bomber over New Guinea in 1943, Army Air Corps Staff Sgt. Claude Ray will finally be laid to rest.
Nearly 70 years after their studies were interrupted by World War II, dozens of Japanese Americans forced into relocation camps now have California college degrees.
The Los Angeles City Council is backing plans to berth a World War II battleship at the Port of Los Angeles as a floating museum.
