One of the first waves of Marines to hit the beach hug the ground as they land on Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945. (INP pool/AP) On Oct. 5, 1945, President Harry S. Truman placed the Medal of Honor around ...

Capt. Willibald C. Bianchi, an Army Medal of Honor recipient who survived many obstacles in World War II, only to be killed in a terrible mistake, will finally return home to receive proper burial 80 ...

Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi survived the Bataan Death March and nearly four years of captivity before being killed on Jan. 9, 1945. (U.S. Army) The remains of Medal of Honor recipient U.S. Army Capt.

(CNN) — World War II US Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi survived two chest wounds from Japanese gunfire, the Bataan Death March, wretched captivity in prisoner-of-war camps and the sinking of his first ...

A U.S. soldier who went missing during World War II has been accounted for more than eight decades after he disappeared, federal officials said Wednesday. Willibald Bianchi, a former U.S. Army captain ...

NATIONAL MEMORIAL CEMETERY OF THE PACIFIC, Hawaii — The Defense Department announced Friday that it had identified the missing remains of a Medal of Honor recipient who was killed in the Philippines ...