Waverly B. Woodson Jr. was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for treating 200 troops under enemy fire on D ...

RAF pilot Ernest Mayne fought in both World Wars. His bravery, including his efforts at Dunkirk, were honoured with service ...

Chris Prosser, left, presents Joann Woodson with her late husband's Combat Medic Badge ... during World War II, spent more than a day treating wounded troops under heavy German fire — all ...

Family and supporters of a Black combat medic who treated 200 troops on D-Day under intense enemy fire are gathering to honor ...

Waverly B. Woodson Jr., a Black World War II combat medic, received the Distinguished Service Cross decades after his death.

When he returned home after World War II, Woodson was denied medals usually given to white men with similar military service, including the Combat Medic Badge. It wasn't until 2023 that Woodson's ...

With a color guard Waverly Woodson never got to see, a National Anthem he would never hear and applause he’d never get to ...

James Scalzo of Albany, who was pinned down by more than 50 German soldiers ... also had earned a World War II Victory Medal, a Good Conduct Medal, a Combat Infantryman Badge, an American Campaign ...

His efforts earned him the French Legion of Honor medal. “I used to go and give ... The Story of the French-Speaking Cajuns of World War II," Theriot interviewed several hundred Louisiana ...

Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.). “The United States awarded 432 Medals of Honor during ... who spoke fluent German at the start of World War II. “But America’s then-segregated Army failed him ...

While honoring military servicemen and women this Veterans Day, it'd only be fair to tip our hats to the cats who have been ...