Jack Leaming was among the last local survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor and a survivor of the brutality of more than 3 1/2 years in Japanese prisoner of war camps. He died Aug. 5 at age 93.
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Anti-nuclear activists from the Nevada Desert Experience and Code Pink commemorated the 68th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan with a peace vigil outside the Nellis Air Force Base main gate.
The Pentagon is moving to ease the pain of unpaid furloughs, good news for 1,100 civilian workers at Nellis and Creech Air Force bases and 530 civilian technicians who work for the Nevada National Guard.
The Army psychiatrist accused in the deadliest mass shooting ever on a U.S. military installation told jurors Tuesday that evidence would “clearly show” he was the gunman during the attack on Fort Hood.
A dollar bill with a Vietnam War mystery led a woman on a four-year search and to Las Vegas where retired Air Force pilot Col. James W. O’Neil had recently died.
Playboy, Penthouse and other sex-themed magazines will no longer be sold at Army and Air Force exchanges – a move described by the stores’ operators as a business decision based on falling sales, and not a result of recent pressure from anti-pornography activists.
A photo that has gone viral this week shows an unlikely coupling at a race: a Marine in his gear and a young boy struggling to make it to the finish line of a 5k race.
Four Southern Nevadans who fought in the Korean War recently shared 60-year-old memories about where they were on July 27, 1953 — the day that peace came to North and South Korea.
Col. Michael Hanifan, a Fallon native who spent the past three years as the deputy director of the Nevada Army National Guard, has been named its new commander.
WASHINGTON — A bill that aims to sort out government benefits for Filipinos who fought alongside Americans during World War II advanced in Congress on Wednesday.
The ranks of Las Vegas Pearl Harbor survivors has dwindled again with the death of William “Big Bill” Simshauser. He was an Army Air Corps soldier who helped a buddy fire back at Japanese warplanes attacking U.S. bombers parked at Oahu’s Bellows Field on Dec. 7, 1941.
Clifton E. Dohrmann, the last president of the local Pearl Harbor survivors group, will be remembered by family and friends today when his ashes are buried at the veterans cemetery in Boulder City.
The U.S. Air Force said Monday many of its combat air forces would start flying again —as well as the Thunderbirds demonstration team at Nellis Air Force Base — after being grounded since April because of budget cuts.
A former Nellis Air Force Base officer was awarded nearly $1 million this month for blowing the whistle on a contract-steering scam involving a middleman in Florida and an engineering company hired to develop anti-terrorism techniques for a now-defunct warfare unit at the base.
Nevada Republican U.S. Sen. Dean Heller and Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. Bob Casey teamed up Thursday to take a stab at the staggering backlog of veterans’ disability claims.