100-Year-Old WWII Veteran Gets Overdue Medals

A member of the World War II Flying Tigers squadron, who manned a B-25 belly gun and cobbled together radio networks in the field, Antonio "Tony" Vaccaro, 100, was presented with five military medals July 19 during a ceremony attended by five generations of his family. The medals were presented at the Dover, New Hampshire, City Hall, where a parking space with Vaccaro's name was reserved at the front door and a line of people waited inside to shake his hand and thank him for his service. His Army jacket, with the Flying Tigers patch on the right shoulder and a communications patch on the right cuff, was displayed with Vaccaro's photo albums and news clippings. Read more on Military.com.