BARNSTABLE, Mass. — A special celebration was held in Barnstable on Wednesday as a World War II veteran turned 105 years old.

Freeman K. Johnson was expecting only a cake for his 105th birthday celebration Wednesday in Hyannis. But others had a ...

The 21-gun salute is one of the highest military honors, performed for dignitaries, heads of state and fallen service members ...

Carton de Wiart died in 1963 at the age of 83, but his exploits have inspired generations of service members in the United ...

Then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt called it ... spent around a half-hour trying to save fellow shipmates before the USS Arizona slipped beneath the surface after the attack on Pearl Harbor ...

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has launched a special exhibition commemorating the 80th anniversary of the historic 1945 meeting between King Abdulaziz bin Abdulrahman Al Saud and US President Franklin D. Roosevelt aboard the ...

Mayor Samuel Nichols, whose daughter Nichelle Nichols notably was a trailblazing icon aboard another aircraft, Star Trek’s USS ... Roosevelt, Brown withdraw her support for President Franklin D.

Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated for his first term as president; he was the last U.S. president to be inaugurated on this date. In his inaugural speech, Roosevelt stated, “The only thing ...

He attended Springfield Junior College and enrolled in the U.S. Navy in 1966. He served as an electronics technician on the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt aircraft carrier during the Vietnam War until his ...

LaChanda E. Parker is the January 2025 Franklin City Public Schools Alumnus of the Month. A school division news release ...