Easygoing East Bay World War II veteran celebrates 100th birthday
At a country club in Alamo Sunday, friends and family of World War II veteran Alfred Gross, celebrated their beloved "Alfee" on his 100th birthday.
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At a country club in Alamo Sunday, friends and family of World War II veteran Alfred Gross, celebrated their beloved "Alfee" on his 100th birthday.
In Alamo Sunday, friends and family of World War II veteran Alfred Gross, celebrated their beloved "Alfee" on his 100th birthday. John Ramos reports. (5-28-23)
A 21-gun salute rang out and planes roared over the Presidio in a ceremony Saturday commemorating the 81st anniversary of the Bataan Death March.
Last August, a group of Japanese-Americans, whose lives began in California, gathered in Utah for a reunion to remember their extraordinary history. Ryan Yamamoto reports. (1-26-23)
Reed Cowan talks to Ryan Yamamoto and his father Howard about the history of a small group of Japanese-American families in the Bay Area who escaped the internment camps to resettle in Utah (1-26-2023)
All six people who were onboard the two planes at the time of the crash were killed, a county official said.
The "ghost boat" was salvaged and somehow ended up at the bottom of California's largest reservoir.
Last week, the House of Representatives passed a bill that contains a resolution asking the US Navy to fully exonerate sailors convicted of mutiny following the Port Chicago explosion in 1944.
Last week, the House of Representatives passed a bill that contains a resolution asking the US Navy to fully exonerate sailors convicted of mutiny following the Port Chicago explosion in 1944. John Ramos reports. (7/20/22)
World War II explosives were found at a west Petaluma residence on Saturday, the Petaluma police department announced.
A fallen Black World War Ii hero, Leonard Roy Harmon, was honored Sunday during an annual ceremony at Lands End in San Francisco.
A fallen Black World War Ii hero, Leonard Roy Harmon, was honored Sunday during a ceremony at Lands End in San Francisco. John Ramos reports. (5-29-22)
John Ramos reports on a special project at a Concord high school to correct wrongs committed during World War II (5-24-2022)
One high school in Concord on Tuesday night is awarding diplomas to Japanese-American students who were pulled from the campus during World War II.
On Sunday, December 7th, 1941, a young radio operator on Mare Island got an urgent message in Morse Code. It was the first news to reach the mainland about the attack on Pearl Harbor and America has never been the same since.
Chinese American World War II veterans are finally getting the recognition they deserve more than 70 years later.
Phyllis Gould, one of the millions of women who worked in defense plants in World War II and who later relentlessly fought for recognition of those "Rosie the Riveters," has died. She was 99.
The remains of a U.S. Navy sailor from Stockton, California who was killed in the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor have been identified, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Friday.
John Buck Chew, age 95, is one of the last living Chinese-American World War II U.S. Army veterans. He served with distinction both during and after the war and now he's about to graduate from high school with the class of 2021.
Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Charles "Chuck" Yeager, the World War II fighter pilot ace who showed he had the "right stuff" when in 1947 he became the first person to fly faster than sound, has died. He was 97.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Tuesday that the remains of U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Earl W. Smith, missing since his plane vanished in 1943, have been recovered at crash site in Papua New Guinea.
A vintage World War II bomber made an emergency landing Saturday night in a field near Stockton, injuring two of the three people who were aboard, according to the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Department.
For sharing his Holocaust survivor story with tens of thousands of people in the last 16 years, this Jefferson Award in the Bay Area goes to Herbert Heller.
On the 75th anniversary of the bloody Battle of Iwo Jima, two Bay Area men spoke about what it was like for those who were there and what it meant to those who followed them into military service.
This week, the State of California is set to offer an official apology to Japanese Americans for mistreating them during World War II.
