PAGE, N.D. (KVRR) — A body found near railroad tracks outside Page, North Dakota in 1970 has been positively identified as William Howard Tate. Investigators believe the body had been there for about six weeks and was a possible homicide victim or had fallen off of a train. Earlier this month, Cass County Coroner’s Office in collaboration with Southeast Missouri…
WASHINGTON, D.C. (KVRR) — Legislation has been introduced in Congress to rename Casselton’s post office after hometown hero, Commander Delbert Austin Olson. He served in World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War. Olson was a member of Observation Squadron 67 which flew low-flying missions along the Ho Chi Minh Trail to place sensors to monitor hostile movements and listen…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Fargo’s AMVETS held their annual Veterans Day SOS event in honor of the day. For a free-will donation, people were served a plate of SOS, or “Stuff On a Shingle,” starting at 11 this morning. The dish of white gravy over toast got its SOS nickname from soldiers serving in World War II. Mark Wagemann, Fargo…
FOSSTON, MINN. (KVRR) – In 1945, Alton “Fritz” Frethem was serving with the Navy in the Pacific at the tail end of the Second World War. And almost 80 years later his service was honored on an Honor Flight trip to the nation’s capital. “I had a lot of attention, let’s put it that way, that I didn’t deserve, except…
FILE – Captain Richard J. Bong, of Poplar, Wis., points to a large picture of his girl friend, Marge Vattendahl, on his Lighting P-38 fighter plane pilot stationed at a New Guinea Air Base, March 31, 1944. Searchers announced Thursday, May 23, 2024, that they’ve discovered what they believe is the wreckage of World War II ace Bong’s plane in…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Senator Kevin Cramer delivered an American flag that once flew at the U.S. Capitol to 96-year-old World War II veteran Vern Otterson in South Fargo. “What can I say? I just can’t hardly believe it that all of a sudden I’m being honored. I wouldn’t have had to have gone in because I was living on…
MOORHEAD, M.N. (KVRR) — Veterans Honor Flight of North Dakota/Minnesota has pre-flight event in preparation of their departure on April 30, after a two year hiatus. “Well when a lot of these men and women came home and went right to work, especially after world war II. They came home, went to work, raised a family, they never had the…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — The son of a 102-year-old World War II vet who passed away in October is finishing his dad’s No Regrets Memorial Tour. Paul Walton met Gov. Doug Burgum in Bismarck in what would have been his dad Sidney Walton’s 44th state visit. Sidney, one of America’s oldest World War II veterans, was on a nationwide tour…
David Russell (Fox News)HONOLULU – U.S. Navy Seaman 1st Class David Russell sought refuge below deck on the USS Oklahoma when Japanese bombs began falling on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. But a split-second decision changed his mind, and likely saved his life. “I thought, ‘What am I doing down here?’ I was trained to be an anti-aircraft loader,”…
Sen. Bob Dole & Kevin Cramer (Undated photo)WASHINGTON (AP) – Americans are remembering Bob Dole, a man who defied the odds in war, only to fall short of his ultimate goal in politics. Dole died Sunday. He was 98. After paralyzing wounds in World War II, Dole willed himself to walk again, and ran for Congress with a right arm…
