Pfc. Basil Marion Cook was the 31-year-old driver of an M-4 Sherman tank engaged with German forces near Hucheln, Germany, when a land mine de…
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A Kanawha County World War II U.S. Army private killed in action in Burma in 1944 while serving with Merrill's Marauders, a predecessor unit o…
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MORGANTOWN 鈥 In observance of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, the West Virginia & Regional History Center invites the Wes…
BARBOURSVILLE 鈥 World War II veteran Hershel 鈥淲oody鈥 Williams is honored in several places in the Huntington area. The newest memorial for the…
Eighty-three years ago Saturday, 106 crewmen aboard the USS West Virginia lost their lives when the battleship was struck by at least seven to…
As high school marching bands, motorcycles and Corvettes full of veterans made their way along Quarrier Street during Monday鈥檚 Veterans Day pa…
Taylor Books founder Ann Saville celebrated her 90th birthday Saturday. From surviving the German Blitz to establishing Charleston鈥檚 first bre…
Editor鈥檚 note: For the 2024 Labor Day holiday, we feature here a critical World War II worker, whose legacy 鈥 and that of her counterparts 鈥 h…
The world was forever changed this week 79 years ago when the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagas…
