American Battle Monuments Commission Opens Online Archive of America’s First Combat Aviators The American Battle Monuments Commission launched an online catalog of photographs and aviation relics tied to America's...
On The Clock: Daylight Saving Time Has Roots in World War I DST continues to spark debate as Americans remain divided over whether to keep changing their clocks each year.
WWI Pilot Took on Nine Germans to Save His Wingman. His Lost Medal of Honor Still Awaits Justice On Nov. 6, 1918, William Vail engaged nine German fighters alone and saved the life of a fellow aviator. He shot down one...
How Soldiers at Fort Riley Helped Spread the Spanish Flu Pandemic During WWI A mess cook's sick call visit at Camp Funston became the first recorded military case of an outbreak that killed more U.S...
How a Wounded Pigeon Named Cher Ami Saved the Lost Battalion in WWI A wounded pigeon named Cher Ami helped save a battalion of American soldiers, becoming one of the most recognized animals in...
'Stories To Be Told': World War II Backdrop For New High School Program “They get to understand the different aspects of history and why we have the freedoms that we have today," a program head...
The Forgotten Army Soldiers That Fought Alongside the Marines at Belleau Wood Belleau Wood is where the Marine Corps became the legend we know of today. It's the battle that gave birth to the term "Devil...
America's Forgotten Doughboys: The 332nd Infantry Destroyed an Empire While millions of Americans can name Western Front battles like Belleau Wood or the Meuse-Argonne, almost no one remembers...
The Battle of Hamel: Australian Soldiers Taught American Doughboys to Fight Germans in WWI For the first time in American history, U.S. soldiers would fight under a foreign command. In 93 minutes, they would help win...
German Spies Detonated 2 Million Pounds of Explosives in New York Harbor in 1916: The Statue of Liberty's Torch Has Been Closed Ever Since Just after 2 a.m. on July 30, 1916, a freight car loaded with TNT exploded at a munitions depot on Black Tom Island in New...
The Recruiting Surge Was Engineered. Can It Last in a War with Iran? The military’s recruiting surge didn’t happen by accident. New programs drove gains, but as the war with Iran grows...
Could the US Bring Back the Draft? Who Would Be Called First — and Who Qualifies Could the U.S. bring back the draft? Here’s how Selective Service works today, who would be called first and why only about...
Army Speeds AI Warfighting Push as US Troops are in Active Combat An Army test used AI tools to hit 15 targets in one hour, signaling a rapid shift in how battlefield decisions are made and...
VA Study: Ozempic, Other GLP-1 Drugs May Fight Addiction Across Every Major Substance For the more than 48 million Americans with substance use disorders, including a disproportionate share of veterans, GLP-1...
After the Knock on the Door: How TAPS Supports Military Families for Life After a service member dies, families face a lifetime of grief. TAPS founder Bonnie Carroll explains how the organization...
