There was a time Ed Cottrell did not know if he was going to make it home alive. Now, the 102-year-old World War II veteran is being honored with a French Legion of Honor medal. Cottrell enlisted in ...

PARIS (AP) — France's former President Nicolas Sarkozy has been stripped of his Legion of Honor medal after being convicted last year of corruption and influence peddling while he was the country’s ...

Bruce Cook, 100, was awarded the French Legion of Honor for his role in bomber missions over occupied France during the war.

“They refused to surrender—even when surrounded, outnumbered, and out of ammunition.” This is the story of the French Foreign ...

The government of France has made a concerted effort to find every allied WWII soldier they can to offer them the country's highest honor. Thanks to a Preston Hollow magazine article, a 101-year-old ...

To the Purple Heart and the bevy of other military decorations Frank Agoglia already earned after crash landing in a rickety wooden glider in France on D-Day 80 years ago, he added on Friday one more ...

SHAWNEE, Kan. – A Shawnee, Kansas veteran is now more than just a World War II American hero. He’s now a Chevalier (Knight) of the French Legion of Honor. A former Kansas City Chief helped make ...