Former Staff Sgt. Ronald Shurer earned the nation's highest military honor in 2018. He died after a lengthy battle with lung cancer on May 14 at the age of 41.
Tom Yewcic, an Army veteran, played quarterback and punted for the then-Boston Patriots, and was a catcher for the Detroit Tigers during his brief major league career.
Austin "Babe" Monsanto, an Army veteran who President Dwight Eisenhower named as the first Virgin Islander to be a National Park ranger, died Saturday at the age of 94.
Edward C. Meyer, a four-star general who, as the Army chief of staff from 1979 to 1983, led an effort to restructure what he called a “hollow Army” in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, died Oct. 13 at his home in Arlington, Va. He was 91.
Retired Lt. Col. Richard “Dick” Cole was one of 80 members of the first U.S. strike against Japanese mainland targets in World War II, credited for bringing optimism of winning the war to the American people.
Roberta McCain, an independent-minded oil heiress who was married to one of the Navy’s highest-ranking officers and who displayed characteristic pluck when she took to the presidential campaign trail at age 96 on behalf of her son, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, has died. She was 108.
Lt. Col. Geoff Hollopeter, the former commander of 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, died April 3 in San Diego after going into cardiac arrest, the 1st Marine Division announced Tuesday in a statement.
When Randall Edwards entered a Japanese prisoner camp in Manchuria during World War II, he expected his life to end soon. But he survived, and lived to age 103.
A World War II veteran and grandson of 10th U.S. president John Tyler, who left office 175 years ago, died at age 95 last month, a historical anomaly of a family whose three generations span three centuries.
Sgt. Henry C. Smith was awarded a Silver Star for his efforts in leading an intelligence and reconnaissance patrol through the jungles of Burma in April 1944. He died Aug. 5 at the age of 98.
