History loves a good story, and battles seem to bring out the storyteller in all of us. The problem is that somewhere between the smoke clearing and the textbooks arriving, facts get stretched, heroes ...

There have been some fantastic war movies made over the years, and while they traverse numerous wars, the ones about World War II are plentiful and feature some of the best films. The thing about ...

The battles of Lexington and Concord were discussed April 19 during a presentation at the Ascension Parish Library. Eddie Vaughn, a member of the General Philemon Thomas chapter of the Sons of the ...

During World War II, a number of important battles took place that undoubtedly changed the war’s course and that of history. Even with thousands of battles taking place between the Allied and Axis ...

On March 3, 1945, Jack Williams, 21, of Harrison was ashore on Iwo Jima, Japan, tending to wounded Marines who were engaged in a fierce battle to dislodge Japanese forces from the island. As a Navy ...