A collection of rare medals belonging to a Battle of France ... Major Merton entered World War II with the British ...

To the public, he's a World War II hero who also happens to be the only member of the Coast Guard with a Medal of Honor (so far). To hundreds of Marines who fought at Guadalcanal on Sept.

Leonard F Pryor's medals "were passed to me a few years ago, as his namesake," his great-grandson Leonard Lawson told Newsweek.

John Hilgert, director of the Nebraska Department of Veterans' Affairs, speaks at a medal ceremony honoring an Omaha World War II veteran. The ceremony is part of an initiative launched earlier ...