It all started when Richard Tado received a call from his friend, 105-year-old World War II U.S. Army Air Corps pilot Edward “Bud” Berthold, that his bathroom had flooded. Tado, a U.S. Coast ...

When war broke out, Charles McCall and the other National Guard troops were shipped to California to protect the West Coast ...

The late historian Stephen Ambrose wrote biographies of Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, as well as many books about World War II. For histories of the war in Europe, Ambrose ...

Just two weeks after American forces landed at Normandy on D-Day, Jack Leroy Tueller, one of those Americans, was taking sniper fire with the rest of his unit. Instead of sitting helplessly, Tueller ...

The longtime Detroit Lakes resident experienced some harrowing moments, as well as a few humorous ones, during his stint in ...

Veterans gathered Friday in Normandy to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings — a pivotal moment of World War II that eventually led to the collapse of Adolf Hitler's regime. Along the ...

Over the past year, WCCO has shared stories about a 101-year-old World War II veteran from Bloomington. We caught up with Les Schrenk on the beaches of Normandy for the 80th anniversary of D-Day last ...

Sheboygan WWII veteran Staff Sgt. Leonard Ploeckelman will be posthumously honored with a Congressional Gold Medal. Ploeckelman was a U.S. Army Ranger who landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day. He served ...