Flags all over Wisconsin were flown at half-staff Monday, in memory of a La Crosse-area soldier, who was buried, 82 years after his death in World...
A yearly day of remembrance for Prisoners of War (POW) and those missing in action was marked for the first time by Western Technical College in...
A week from now, a World War II-era vessel is headed to Riverside Park in La Crosse. The Navy’s LST 325 (landing ship tank) was used...
While we lose a generation of people who survived the Holocaust, Alexandra Zapruder continues to work on another perspective of understanding that point in time. Alexandra...
A Holocaust survivor who was supposed to speak at Viterbo University this Thursday has become ill and will not make it. Peter Feigl, who was on...
In 1943, the U.S. was at war in Europe and the Pacific, and Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt was already a record-holder on his third term in...
In July of 1943, the Second World War was raging on several fronts. Just on the front page of the La Crosse Tribune, the Secretary of the...
A program in La Crosse to honor veterans with flights to Washington, D.C. is now up to its 25th trip. That landmark will be reached on...
The first month and 23rd day of 1945, World War II was heading to a conclusion. The major headlines on the La Crosse Tribune that day...
MIDWAY ATOLL, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (AP) — A crew of deep-sea explorers and historians looking for lost World War II warships have found a second Japanese...
MIDWAY ATOLL, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (AP) — Deep-sea explorers scouring the world’s oceans for sunken World War II ships are homing in on debris fields deep...
WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. (AP) — A World War II-era plane with 13 people aboard crashed and burned at the Hartford airport after encountering mechanical trouble on...
GROESBEEK, Netherlands (AP) — Jump by jump, 98-year-old D-Day veteran Tom Rice is nudging closer to his goal of leaping out of planes at age 100....
A local veteran of World War II got a chance to board a B-24 again this weekend, as part of the “How Time Flies” festival at...
OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — Standing on the windswept beaches and bluffs of Normandy, a dwindling number of aging veterans of history’s greatest air and sea...
In the summer of 2008, some La Crosse area residents announced plans to take World War II veterans on a quick one-day round trip to Washington....
HONOLULU (AP) — Retired U.S. Navy Cmdr. Don Long was alone on an anchored military seaplane in the middle of a bay across the island from...
HONOLULU (AP) — More than 75 years after nearly 2,400 members of the U.S. military were killed in the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, some who...
