He was honorably discharged in December 1945 after the deactivation of the 2nd Ranger Battalion. Drake returned to Hawley and worked for the Ashland Tree Company.

WWII Army Ranger veteran John Wardell, 99, received the Congressional Gold Medal. Wardell was honored for his service, including fighting in Normandy, France, and the Battle of the Hurtgen Forest.

Kershaw was the commander of the First Ranger Battalion at that time. “That was the kind of noncommissioned officer Gunny was— leading by example, in the most difficult circumstances.

Nearly five decades before Robert Brewer served as U.S. attorney in San Diego, he was an Army Ranger who, late one evening, found himself as the lone American embedded with South Vietnamese troops ...

While the first official Ranger battalion was formed in 1942, the Rangers trace their lineage back to at least the 1750s. The Ranger Hall of Fame was established in 1992, and just 15 former ...