Eighty years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, one Las Vegas man is making sure Nevadans remember the heroic legacy of the USS Nevada.
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Onofrio “No-No” Zicari was hurt storming Omaha Beach on D-Day during World War II.
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.
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.”
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.
Metro police arrested Father Louis Vitale and 32 others early Friday for trespassing at Creech Air Force Base where 140 peace activists had gathered to protest U.S. drone operations in the Middle East and Afghanistan that are controlled remotely at the base, 45 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
Vietnam War veteran Steve Lowery of Las Vegas has the scars, the medals and his Marine Corps medical records to prove he was wounded when his 12-man reconnaissance team was attacked on March 5, 1969. Then he ran into the Reno VA benefits office, which refused his benefits claim.