Sicily-Rome American Cemetery hosted a ceremony last week commemorating the 73rd anniversary of the Allied landings at Anzio and Nettuno.
American forces that fought in Europe during World War II are far from forgotten in the towns and villages they helped to liberate.
ABMC officially assumed ownership and responsibility for the Lafayette Escadrille Memorial Cemetery (LEMC) today, making it the 9th commemorative World War I cemetery administered by the agency.
With the goal of clearing dangerous communist concentrations north of Saigon, American forces launched Operations Cedar Falls and Junction City, arguably the largest American operations in the Vietnam War, in early 1967.
In World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, millions of Americans served far from home. In the various conflicts, service members fought in the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific. They traversed mountains in Italy, France, Korea and Vietnam.
Proving that patriotism cannot be measured by a person’s race or culture, World War II, Korea and Vietnam War veteran Robert Nobuo Izumi has lived nearly his entire life serving our country. Izumi, who is a Japanese-American, was forced into an internment camp with his family shortly after the a
The cost of war cannot be measured in just combat deaths. More than 16 million Americans served in World War II, and the inherent risk of war touched all corners of the Armed Forces.
In early December, staff at Cambridge American Cemetery received an unexpected holiday card. “Imagine our surprise, when we opened it to find a beautiful reproduction of a wartime Christmas Card,” said Suzie Harrison.
The Honolulu Memorial at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific is undergoing a major renovation project, which began in 2014.