Congress has bestowed its highest honor on merchant mariners who fought in World War II, almost eight decades after the conflict in which more than 8,000 of them were killed. More than two years after ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. — In 1944 Julian Thorne Hilts' older brother had just joined the Navy. Thorne, as he's known by, wanted to help fight alongside the men fighting for his country during World War II, ...

Coventry’s maritime links were celebrated this week (Tuesday) when the Red Ensign was raised at the Council House to ...

Retired U.S. Army Col. William Pruitt, 102, and Edward Trester, 95, held up their Congressional Gold Medals in front of the crowd at the St. Johns County Auditorium on Thursday night. Both risked ...

Merchant Navy Day was commemorated on Sunday with a short service at the Seafarers Memorial at the Braehead in Wick.

DOVER — World War II veteran John Durkin, who served as a lieutenant in the Merchant Marine, received a Congressional Gold Medal Friday for his service from U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire. ...

WASHINGTON – The Secretary of the Navy announced on July 17 the full exoneration of the remaining 256 defendants of the 1944 Port Chicago general and summary courts-martial. Carlos Del Toro, Secretary ...