Dave Larsen with Freedom Honor Flight joins to help preview this Saturday’s trip, where they will take about 100 veterans for free to see the war...
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 couple of veterans — Rick’s dad, Rod Solem and Ken Rupp — joined the show, as we preview the WWII-era LST-325 now docked at Riverside...
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...
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...
La Crosse’s Freedom Honor Flight project is getting ready to mark a milestone…over a year later than planned. The flights to Washington for area veterans are...
A Holocaust survivor who was a childhood friend of Anne Frank has become a regular friend of Viterbo University. Ninety-one-year-old Eva Schloss has given her third...
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...
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...
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...
There won’t be an empty seat at the Viterbo Fine Arts Center Main Theatre tonight. A packed house is expected to hear the story of Magda...
The phy. ed. teacher who saved hundreds of Jewish children from deportation to concentration camps has died at 108 years old. Georges Loinger, was a teacher...
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...
This weekend’s Freedom Honor Flight from La Crosse to Washington is still on but at an earlier time than planned. The day-trip to the nation’s capital...
It’s the 10th anniversary of the Freedom Honor Flight in La Crosse but Hurricane Florence could spoil the trip to Washington. Dozens of La Crosse area...
It may be the first monument of its kind anywhere in the U.S. and, of course, La Crosse’s Louie Ferris is behind it. The proposed statue...
