Sandy Winneshiek was instrumental in getting a group of 14 Ho-Chunk code talkers identified and honored, but she had one more task to complete: having a Wisconsin highway named in their honor. Her mission has been fulfilled.
Wiesbaden, Germany, September 1963: Boston Celtics forward and future Basketball Hall of Famer Tommy Heinsohn, foreground, attends a USAFE basketball clinic.
Fort Mose was first built in the 1700s in Spanish St. Augustine, Fla. Then it was buried and forgotten. Now a life-size reproduction will open this year.
South Vietnam, November 1968: Pfc. Carroll G. Steeve, of 3rd Platoon, A Company, 2nd Battalion, 47th Infantry, 1st Brigade, 9th Infantry Division, takes time out from the war to do some laundry, using the best substitute he could find for a clothesline.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency last week announced that the remains of two soldiers, a pilot and two sailors from World War II, and a soldier from the Korean War have been identified.
Troops are deployed to all parts of the globe. Despite the miles, the bond persists between mother and child. Mom is gone, but not forgotten. The children are not with her, but they are near.
Eagle Base, Bosnia and Herzegovina, May 6, 2002: Sgt. Michelle Flores writes letters often to her son, Emilio. At 14 months, the boy is too young to read them, but someday he’ll know his mother was thinking of him while she was deployed to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Gladys Waters, 100, lives at an assisted living center in Royal Oak, Michigan, but she is ready to step out and be the grand marshal for the city’s Memorial Day Parade this month.
South Vietnam, March 1967: The conductor of this symphony of dust is actually helping guide an 11th Aviation Battalion helicopter as it lands troops in War Zone C, near the Cambodian border. The dust was kicked up by the copter’s rotor blades.
The families of five Hawaii men who served in a unit of Japanese-language linguists during World War II have received posthumous Purple Heart medals on behalf of their loved ones nearly eight decades after the soldiers died in a plane crash in the final days of the conflict.
Three months after marrying his high school sweetheart, Starring Brooks Winfield was killed aboard the USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor. His remains were identified decades later, and this week he was honored with interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
A 1999 report by the Army provided an extensive background of the range, created in 1941 during the rollup to World War II, when rancher R.K. Smith and his wife Mary of the Adobe Ranch leased the six-square-mile parcel to the Army.
Saigon, January 1966: A basket and a few feet of sidewalk make up this elderly woman’s shop as she sells strawberries in downtown Saigon.
Dozens of people at Lehigh Valley International Airport had a chance to see the massive B-29 air bomber christened “Doc.” The B-29, which was unveiled in 1944, helped lead America to victory in World War II.
As farmers were chasing a runaway pig east of Flagstaff, Ariz., on April 19, 1975, deputies said the farmers stumbled upon skeletal remains. Now, using forensic genetic genealogy, deputies said they identified the remains as Army veteran Gerald Francis Long.
American veterans are reconnecting with their long-ago service at Husterhöh Kaserne through a stop on an audio tour that was inspired by a social media group named for the former U.S. military base in Pirmasens.
Normandy, France, June 1994: Fifty years after allied troops landed on Utah Beach to begin the push toward Berlin that ended World War II, a boy engages in the kind of struggle beaches are more suited for — flying a kite.
The LV-3B/SM-65D Atlas rocket was a nuclear missile before it was a space rocket. Now, the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force has welcomed a restored replica to its permanent collection.
Tokyo, April 26, 1975: Two future managers of championship baseball teams, Sadaharu Oh and Davey Johnson, get acquainted as teammates with Tokyo’s Yomiuri Giants.