Dominic Bersani, a veteran of World War II and the Cold War, recently received special recognition. At the Melvin Roads ...

Dominic Bersani, a World War II Navy veteran, celebrated his 99th birthday recently by getting his high school diploma and several awards for military service.

When most people think of the Pacific Theater of World War II, they envision tropical islands, heat, and jungle combat.

Dominic Bersani received the diploma through a state program that gives certificates to veterans who left school to serve ...

This Georgia barrier island is home to maritime forests, marshlands, wide beaches, and wild horses. Guests must register with the National Park Service to visit the island, which is accessible only by ...

A little-known creek in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska had been officially named “Nazi Creek” for 80 years — until recently. Following a campaign by a local advocate, the creek was given a new name in ...

The name Nazi Creek will no longer be used in federal databases or maps for an Aleutian Islands waterway that now has an Indigenous name. On Thursday, the Domestic Names Committee for the U.S. Board ...

Little Kiska Island, at the far western end of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, is a remote speck of land that was heavily contested during World War II. In an attack possibly timed to draw away U.S.

Spanning 1,200 miles from mainland Alaska toward Siberia and knifing between the Bering Sea and Pacific Ocean, the more than 300 mostly barren Aleutian Islands would have made for a perilous WWII ...

Alaska officials have voted unanimously to change the names of a creek and a hill on an Aleutian island in response to proposals arguing they were offensive and arbitrary. The features in question are ...

This soldier became the first Hispanic American MOH recipient of WWII. The Japanese occupations in June 1942 on the Aleutian islands of Attu and Kiska, originally planned as a feint to divide the U.S.