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Leslie Simmler, a 97-year-old World War II veteran from Westtown, has been honored with the French Legion of Honor Award, writes Bill Rettew…
A passion for World War II history led West Chester University student Adam MacMillan to accompany a 98-year-old D-Day veteran Bob Gibson…
Our nation is polarized and angry unlike any time since the Civil War. It seems that we are shouting at each other in person and…
Curtiss SB2C Helldiver, a key Navy weapon during World War II.Image via the Aviation History Online Museum.
The surprise birthday party for Jack Freemann…
Devon native George Earle, the Governor of Pennsylvania from 1935 to 1939, was a well-respected and popular Democratic politician. Expectations were that he would…
Levittown resident David Wisnia, an Auschwitz survivor and baritone singer, has died at 94. His story is particularly compelling because first-hand accounts of World…
A World War II vet nearing 100 years old received his high school diploma this week from the Rose Tree Media School District, writes Ashley…
U.S. Rep. John Joyce has introduced legislation that would award the Medal of Honor to Lt. Eric Fisher Wood Jr., a Valley Forge Military…
Lincoln University will award an honorary doctorate posthumously to Nelson Henry Jr., the Black World War II veteran who worked for nearly 75 years to…
A soldier from Gardendale, a neighborhood in Boothwyn, who was killed on a small island during World War II will finally be laid to rest…
Robert Friend, a Tuskegee Airman who took aviation courses at Lincoln University, has died at the age of 99, writes Amanda Jackson for CNN.
Friend…
Nearly 75 years after he was forced out of military due to the color of his skin, World War II veteran and former Lincoln University…
Penicillin used in World War II was mass produced in West Chester by G. Raymond Rettew, a local chemist who pioneered mass production of the…
Jim McErlane, Senior Partner at Lamb McErlane PC, speaks with VISTA Today about growing up an only child in Malvern, attending Malvern Prep, then Villanova…
Thomas “Buck” Riley, Founder and former CEO of Riley Riper Hollin & Colagreco, speaks with Vista Today about his memories growing up on a farm…
Charles Simcox, a local veteran who was killed in action in Europe on Christmas Eve in 1944, is the subject of a special research project…
Angeline Nanni, a Western Pennsylvania woman who ran a beauty parlor in Blairsville with her sisters before World War II, was one of the code…
The mother of William Dallam III tattled on him to Eleanor Roosevelt for his not writing home while serving aboard the USS Moale during World…
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