The directive took Staff Sergeant Lafayette G. Pool aback. For weeks, his olive-drab Sherman M4A1 medium tank, its sides painted in white block letters with the name In the Mood, had been in the lead ...

Sgt. Lafayette G. Pool and his crew became legends of the 3rd Armored Division as they stormed across Europe in World War II. Operating three different Sherman tanks over just 81 days, they racked up ...

April 1945. As the 3rd Armored Division stormed the city of Dessau, a lone Super Pershing rolled into history. Facing an ambush by a supposed King Tiger, an 18-year-old gunner had only seconds to ...

Seventy-seven years after the end of World War II, one of its last surviving heroes is gone. Clarence Smoyer, a native of Lehighton who’d been living with his daughter in Allentown, died Friday, ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A U.S. Army tanker from Indiana that was believed to have been killed during World War II was finally accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency in July. U.S. Army ...

Coming from a long line of military veterans, 100-year-old Walter Stitt Jr. never thought twice about risking his life to fight against the Germans in World War II. Recognized by the Blue Jackets on ...