Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vincent Speranza, the American paratrooper who became known as the soldier who doled out beer to his wounded comrades during the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vincent Speranza salutes a passing division while early 15,000 soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division gathered with their units ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Nov. 11, 2013. It took 65 years for Vincent Speranza to find out that his actions in Belgium during World War II had been immortalized — for his ...

UPDATE: This story has been updated with funeral arrangements. Vincent J. Speranza, a veteran of the Battle of the Bulge in World War II who became a hero in Belgium, died at Springfield Memorial ...