Freddie Stowers was an American Corporal ... to white women on the street. One soldier wrote home to his mother saying the only time he was ever reminded in France that he was black was when ...

FRANKLIN, La. (KLFY)– France honored a World War II veteran from Franklin. Army Ranger 2nd Lt. Edward V. Loustalot was the first American soldier to die in Nazi-occupied Europe during WWII.

They had been ordered to hold back the German advance across France for as long as possible, to enable the evacuation of nearly 340,000 Allied soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk. The men ...