At her centennial birthday celebration in 2024, Gertrude “Trudy” Carey Barrick was known by family and friends as “the life ...
Sept. 2, 2025, marked the 80th anniversary of V-J Day, the day Japan formally surrendered and ended World War II. Dolly Marshall, of Springfield, and Dorothy Key, of Goshen, were teenagers at the time ...
(CNN) — Betty Reid Soskin, who was the National Park Service’s oldest active ranger when she retired at age 100, has died. She was 104. She passed away “peacefully” at her home in Richmond, California ...
During the bloody battle for Hurtgen Forest in late 1944, a 23-year-old German lieutenant heard a wounded American soldier crying for help in a minefield. Lt. Friedrich Lengfeld ordered his men not to ...
SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — The determination of California businessman Fred Wada helped a Japanese American colony of 130 people avoid internment camps during World War II. They found refuge in Wasatch ...
At age 106, Alice Darrow can clearly recall her days as a nurse during World War II, part of a pioneering group that dodged bullets as they hauled packs full of medical supplies and treated the burns ...