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A ceremony to honor Jefferson County’s last Civil War veteran was held recently at the Brookville Cemetery, when a special ...
The New Kensington Salvation Army has new leadership. Kevin and Lori Schoch took over as majors of the New Kensington ...
An extraordinary cold case investigation revealed a formerly unidentified ward of the state to be a Women's Army Corps ...
A ceremony to honor Jefferson County’s last Civil War veteran was held recently at the Brookville Cemetery, when a special ...
Standing near the gravestone for the relative he never met, Mark Bailey accepted the crisply folded American flag from the ...
She was studying at Ohio State when in 1942 she joined the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, later the Women's Army Corps. She was one of 39 Black women in WAC's first training class.
The corps is working to start a new women’s auxiliary. Painesville Corps Major Alma Riley said the auxiliary will support the group’s Christmas in July efforts this summer, and it is ...
Johns Hopkins University senior Jenna Halpin received the Women's Army Corps Veterans' Association Pallas Athene Award, one of the top honors for women ROTC cadets. The award honors students who ...
Beatrice F. Coleman, a WWII Army vet, marks her 103rd birthday in Hampton. She served as one of the first African American women in the Women's Army Corps.
Army Maj. Charity Adams (center, front) inspects members of the 6888th battalion in formation in Birmingham, England, in 1945. The Women's Army Corps battalion made history as the only all-female ...
The only Women's Army Corps unit of color to serve overseas in World War II received a Congressional Gold Medal on Tuesday, exactly 80 years after pulling off an incredible organizational feat.