CHIÈVRES, Belgium – Léonce Descamps, a Belgian Resistance fighter during World War II and resident of Neufvilles, Belgium, received the Order of St. Michael Sept. 25, 2021 for her actions during World ...

Editor's Note: The following story is a part of USAG Benelux’s “Honoring our Legacy” series in which we tell stories of World War I, World War II, the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty ...

Monique Hanotte, who as a Belgian teenager risked her life to help escort 135 Allied airmen out of German-occupied France and Belgium during World War II, died Feb. 19 in the Belgian city of Nivelles.

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Stunning and cathartic, "Last Best Hope" takes even the most jaded World War II film buff by surprise. "Last Best Hope" explores the moral courage expressed by ordinary Belgian citizens, ...

Grove. 308 pp. $25 One of the cardinal rules of reviewing books (or anything else, for that matter) is that one must review the book that the author actually wrote rather than complaining that he or ...

Dr. Charles Schepens, a hero of the French Resistance during World War II who later became a pioneer in retina surgery, died March 28 in Nahant, Mass. He was 94. Schepens, a native Belgian, assumed an ...