1995: A bus loaded with high school students was hit by an express commuter train at a crossing in Fox River Grove, tearing the bus body from the chassis and killing seven aboard the bus. No one on ...

Bob St. Peters and Gerald Schmidt were in the South Pacific during World War II ...

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American tanks were decisive in turning the tide of World War 2. American armor marched across Africa and Europe, seizing ...

MacDonald, who joined the Marines at the age of 15 by lying about his age, was part of a group of roughly 420 Navajo code ...

Radiologist Stanley S. Friedman assists with the reading of X-ray plates for several hospitals in South Korea, February 1959.

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Oct. 25, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. 1940: Col. Benjamin O. Davis Sr., a ...