Col. Joshua DeMotts has assumed command of the 99th Air Base Wing on Nellis Air Force Base outside of Las Vegas.
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Eighty years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, one Las Vegas man is making sure Nevadans remember the heroic legacy of the USS Nevada.
Onofrio “No-No” Zicari was hurt storming Omaha Beach on D-Day during World War II.
A documentary from two Las Vegas filmmakers tells a lesser-known story from the Pearl Harbor attack on Dec. 7, 1941.
Onofrio “NoNo” Zicari, 97, who stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, 76 years ago, reflects on this year’s anniversary amid upheaval in the U.S.
Lenoard Nielsen and Ed Hall, believed to be the last two survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor living in Las Vegas, aren’t sure that the lessons from the “date that will live in infamy” will withstand the test of time.
Hundreds gathered at the Elks Lodge Las Vegas on Thursday to honor local World War II veterans and commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
The Nevada Army National Guard has identified a Las Vegas soldier killed in a tank rollover accident during a training exercise in California.
A year removed from living on the streets of Las Vegas, Army veteran Ronald Cochran kept to his usual routine last week on the morning he was to take another big step in his comeback — his first day of work in seven years.
Edward Hall, one of the last surviving veterans of the Pearl Harbor attack, recounted his experiences during a Las Vegas event Saturday honoring the 95-year-old Army veteran.
A 93-year-old World War II Army veteran says he was “roughed up” and arrested by police at the VA Medical Center in North Las Vegas after a dispute over a tardy shuttle.
Al Grandis, then a 19-year-old lovesick Marine, earned one of his Purple Heart medals when he stepped on a mine on a mountaintop in east-central Korea known as “Heartbreak Ridge.”
“If it was right after the attack on Pearl Harbor, I’d want to kick him in the ass. … (But now) I have no hate for the Japanese,” says one 93-year-old former USS Nevada sailor.
If you’re a veteran like Willie L. Smith and you want to ask Veterans Benefits Administration Service Center Manager Allen Bittler in Reno about the delay in processing your disability claim and where it stands in the backlog, well good luck.
When Tom Cameron went looking for photographs of his dad in D-Day, he came across one that soldiers seldom talked about that was taken before the allied invasion 71 years ago Saturday.
