A soldier from Mid-Michigan who fought and died in the Pacific theater during World War II has been identified and accounted ...
A soldier from Webberville, U.S. Army Air Forces Sgt. James W. Swartz, 21, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war in ...
The USS "Edsall," a 314-foot-long destroyer, fought off Japanese forces for more than an hour before sinking beneath the ...
As thousands of U.S. and Filipino service members were captured and interned at POW camps, Swartz was among those reported ...
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced James Swartz of Webberville, was officially accounted for in August.
The Treasure of Sierra Madre remains one of the most influential Westerns of all time almost a century after it initially ...
PRAGS, Italy — In a little-known chapter in the waning days of World War II, U.S. troops rescued more than 130 political ...
I appreciate everyone and have enjoyed my life here in Picayune.” Worthy joined the U.S. Army in 1943 during World War II.
Just in time for Veterans Day, the City of Miami Beach unveiled its “Boot Camp in Paradise: World War II in Miami Beach” to ...
At this week’s City Council meeting, Officer James Drewery, himself a veteran, announced that U.S. Army Sergeant Sidney L. Worthy had been named Picayune’s 2024 Veteran of the Year in honor of Sgt.
Here’s some detail on the 14 parishioners of St. Cecilia Catholic Church who were killed in the line of duty in World War II and are memorialized on a plaque ...
Army Pvt. Booker Spicely, who was Black, was shot and killed by a white bus driver in 1944 after the driver asked him to move to the back of the bus.