World War II

An aircraft that helped defeat Nazi Germany during World War II landed in Missoula on Monday morning as part of a nationwide tour.

The Honorary Consul of France, Laurence Markarian, contacted KGVO News on Tuesday to deliver a special message of thanks to the United States of America and especially the brave soldiers, sailors and airmen who gave their lives on D-Day, June 6, 1944.

Anaconda’s 92 year-old Charlie Dowd remembers December 7, 1941 like it was yesterday.

Montana's Doolittle Raider, David Thatcher, laid to rest..

Mission complete. Those were the words spoken at the graveside service for Staff Sergeant David Thatcher of Missoula, one of the last two remaining Doolittle Raiders. Thatcher passed away on Sunday at age 94.

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — One of the last two surviving members of the Doolittle Raiders, who bombed Japan during World War II in retaliation for the attack on Pearl Harbor, has died in Montana.

All Montana is in mourning as one of the last two surviving 'Doolittle Raiders', David Thatcher, passed away in Missoula yesterday. He was 94.

Montana Congressman Steve Daines was in Missoula on Monday in the Florence Hotel Governor's Room to confer Purple Heart Medals of Valor to three veterans, one posthumously, during a Decoration Ceremony .

The remains of a World War II prisoner of war will be returned to his Montana home some 70 years after his plane was shot down.