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Five hundred New York Army National Guard Soldiers assigned to the headquarters of the 42nd Infantry Division are preparing to depart for a Middle Eas...

ALBANY — Retired Brigadier Gen. Arthur G. Austin Jr. of Cuba is the 2025 New York State Senate Veterans Hall of Fame honoree for the 57th Senate Distr...

Wellsville American Legion Post 702 is named for Morrison Hayes, the younger brother of Gabby Hayes — remembered for his Hollywood westerns in the 193...

Inserted in today’s edition of the Olean Times Herald is our annual Some Gave All special supplement in recognition of Memorial Day. Produced with our...

LITTLE VALLEY — From New York state to Virginia and back to Cattaraugus County, the 37th New York Regimental Presentation Flag has a storied history. ...

The morning of Dec. 26, 1776, did not start according to plan. The night before, George Washington had led 2,400 Continental Army soldiers across the ...

ELDRED, Pa. — The curator of the Eldred World War II Museum, Kyle Dunn, will speak at the Museum at 6 p.m. Friday in the Mitchell Paige Hall on “The T...

Early on the Sunday morning of Dec. 7, 1941, Richard Sutton, a sailor from Olean, and fellow crew members of the battleship USS Maryland, moored on Ba...

ALBANY (TNS) — New York Army National Guard recruiters are the best in the nation — again. The state ranked No. 1 out of 54 states and territories in ...

The Cattaraugus County Museum and Research Library in Machias announces the release of “The Journey of the 37th New York Regimental Presentation Flag,...

Provided U.S. Army Sgt. Michael Kwiatkowski of Olean (left) is shown with Sgt. John H. Pope of Lynnbrook, Long Island, with a Japanese flag in the aft...

OLEAN — The African American Center for Cultural Development, at 214 N. Barry St., will host a conversation with veterans from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday at...

ST. BONAVENTURE — The Civil War’s Battle of Spotsylvania Court House saw the most sustained hand-to-hand combat of the war and ranks as its third-bloo...

When a metal detector enthusiast found a small folded piece of metal near Waldbrunn in Bavaria, Germany, it set in motion the return of a U.S. militar...

OMAHA BEACH, France — As young soldiers, they waded through breaking waves and gunfire to battle the Nazis. Now bent with age, the dwindling number of...

Eighty years ago today, LaVerne Carlson of Olean spent the morning fighting his way onto Omaha Beach in the first wave of the invasion of Normandy. “V...

The former Western allies are commemorating the 80th anniversary of their greatest World War II achievement, the June 6 landings in Normandy, forever ...

On Memorial Day, honor two 1940 Gowanda Central School graduates who were Gowanda’s first and last servicemen to die in World War II. One perished 24 ...