Gordon Quan is also being remembered as a pillar of Victoria’s Chinese community, a tireless worker and volunteer.

I recently discovered a World War II commando who was an unsung action hero — Irishman Lt. Col. Robert “Paddy” Mayne, one of the most decorated British Army officers of the war. Born in 1915 to a ...

On Dec. 19, 1941, in the pre-dawn darkness, six Italian commandos slipped into Alexandria harbor in Egypt. British troops and sailors had spotted an Italian reconnaissance plane days earlier, and ...

June 22, 2006 — -- The news this week that a major component of the U.S.-backed "war on drugs" seems to be failing brought back a flood of memories for me. The reports come from Colombia where ...

The Air Commando Heritage Foundation has taken the lead in raising an estimated $20 million to build an Air Commando Museum at Hurlburt Field The planned 25,000 to 30,000 square foot museum building ...

At the start of the 1967 Six-Day War (June 5-10) between Israel and the surrounding Arab nations, a team of eight Israeli commandos, with their female boat captain in tow, are sent on a suicide ...

They were World War II’s weirdest warriors: the Creature Commandos. While DC Comics had published the wartime tales of Sgt. Rock and the Blackhawks, and pit Superman and Batman against the Axis powers ...