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Long-Missing WWII Medal To Be Awarded

On Sunday, decades after he won it, Hyla Merin will receive her father’s Purple Heart, along with a Silver Star she never knew he’d won and a half-dozen other medals.

2013/02/17

93-Year-Old Pilot, WWII Hero Goes Down Under For Top Honor

John Wells, a 93-year-old World War II pilot, recently returned to Australia for a plaque dedication in honor of the 22nd Bomb Group.

2012/10/05

American cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, western France. (Photo credit: KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP/Getty Images)

Opinion: Obama’s Non-Commemoration Of D-Day Is Inexcusable

Wednesday of this week was a meaningful and historic day for Americans, and President Barack Obama was too busy campaigning and raising reelection funds to properly commemorate the day. Beyond being wrong, it is inexcusable. […]

2012/06/07

Abandoned Nazi Compound Withers Away In The Hills Of Pacific Palisades

Hidden deep in the hills above Pacific Palisades lie the remnants of a secret compound that housed Nazi sympathizers during World War II.

2012/04/30

Tickets On Sale For Documentary On WWII Internment Camps In SoCal

A new documentary has opened chronicling the first internment camps that opened during World War II here in Southern California.

2012/03/31

USC Awards Degrees To Japanese American Internees

The University of Southern California is tracking down Japanese-American students who never got to complete their degrees because they were sent to internment camps during World War II.

2012/03/18

Burglar Shot After Trying To Break Into Army Veteran’s Home

Burglars messed with the wrong senior when they decided to break into Jack Goodwin’s Baldwin Hills home.

2012/02/01

USS Iowa Making Slow Journey To SoCal

The USS Iowa — a World War II era battleship — is about to become a floating museum in San Pedro.

2011/10/28

World War II Navajo Code Talker Joe Morris Dies At 85

Navajo Code Talker Joe Morris, one of more than 400 American Indians who used the language of ancestors to relay secret battlefield orders during World War II, has died in California at 85.

2011/07/21

WWII Practice Bomb Found In Riverside Yard

A foreclosure home cleanup crew has found a World War II practice bomb in a Southern California backyard.

2011/05/04

WWII Airman Buried 67 Years After Bomber Crash

A World War II airman has been buried in California 67 years after his bomber crashed on a southwest Pacific island.

2010/10/28

Missing For 67 Years, WWII Airman To Be Buried In Riverside

67 years to the day that he and 11 others vanished in a B-24 bomber over New Guinea in 1943, Army Air Corps Staff Sgt. Claude Ray will finally be laid to rest.

KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO–2010/10/22

Japanese WWII Internees Get Honorary Diplomas

Nearly 70 years after their studies were interrupted by World War II, dozens of Japanese Americans forced into relocation camps now have California college degrees.

2010/10/18