Pearl Harbor survivors stationed on the USS Arizona make an appearance at the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center in Honolulu, Hawaii on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016. Photos by Lucas Carter/The American Legion.
Pearl Harbor survivors make a public appearance at the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center in Honolulu, Hawaii on Monday, Dec. 5, 2016. Photos by Lucas Carter/The American Legion
After a decade of restoration, the world's only WWII combat PT boat, PT-305 crawled through the streets of New Orleans to the Mississippi River and was hoisted to a barge on the final leg to the journey to becoming a floating exhibit for the WWII Mueseum in New Orleans in April of 2017. By the end of the WWII over ninety percent of the U.S. Navy fleet was designed or built by Andrew Higgins in his New Orleans factory and he is credited by General Dwight Eisenhower as "the man who won the war for us."
The medals of Pvt. Elmer D. Wall of Jamestown, Ky., who died in World War II on August 9, 1944, are presented to his family after slipping through the cracks for over 70 years at American Legion Post 205 in Franklin, Ind., on Friday, November 11. Photos by Lucas Carter/The American Legion.
New York Legion members joined other veterans and servicemembers to parade down 5th Ave. in "America's Parade: New York City" on Veterans Day. Photos by Amy C. Elliott
