Name and Rank: James Alward Van Fleet, lieutenant general, U.S. Army. Born: March 19, 1892, at Coytesville, N.J. His father, William, took the family homesteading to Florida a year later, became first ...
A survivor of “Black Thursday” raid — one of the costliest American missions of World War II — has belatedly received medals that he earned 80 years ago jumping from his burning B-17 bomber and being ...