His baseball teammates labeled him "The Crab," a needling reference to his crusty demeanor. He famously got thrown out of ...

The King's Birthday Honours mark the extraordinary contributions and service of people across the UK. More than 1,000 people ...

The highest honours have gone to Sir Antony Gormley, the sculptor behind the Angel of the North, and Professor Jocelyn Bell ...

A week later, Harrington would earn the Navy Cross in ... that appears to form a cross over the Marines. Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images After leaving the military, Harrington gave ...

He saw more action after the war. In Haiti he won the Haitian Military Medal. In Nicaragua he twice won the Navy Cross. He served with the Horse Marines at Pekin, with the famed Fourth at Shanghai.

He received the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal for his bravery and now, more than 55 years later, the Navy Cross. It was one of at least eight ambushes he and his fellow soldiers fought ...

On Wednesday, Heller received the Navy Cross, the second-highest valor award a Marine can receive. The 39th Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. Eric Smith, pinned Heller’s Navy Cross to his ...

Duke Heller is being honored for his actions in one of at least eight ambushes he and his fellow surviving soldiers can recall during their 18 months of the war. DOJ tells prosecutors to drop case ...

Patrick Gallagher was awarded the Navy Cross for his actions during a 1966 ... He was killed in combat in his last few days of military service in Vietnam. Credit: Marine Corps Gallagher was ...

A highly-decorated Royal Navy hero was arrested and thrown in jail ... Lance Corporal Matt Croucher, 40, was awarded the George Cross after jumping on a Taliban grenade in 2008 in Afghanistan ...

From that point forward, the U.S. went on full-scale military operations and ... Instead, the Navy outfitted a number of WWI warships with various automation technologies for remote operation ...

Al Cantello, one of the most legendary coaches in Navy athletics history, died Jan. 17 after a brief illness. Mr. Cantello, a longtime Annapolis resident, was 92. The longtime cross country and ...