A New Podcast from the National WWII Museum Revisits the 'Most Consequential Year in Modern History' The first episode of the series covers January-March 1945, which includes the battles of Iwo Jima and Manila, the firebombing...
WWII Dive Bomber Found on Pacific Floor — with a Bomb Still Attached, NOAA Says A World War II bomber has been discovered 3 miles deep in the Pacific Ocean, and it’s still fully armed with an 83-year-old...
New Book Follows the Dutch Civilians Who Came to Adopt and Care for American Graves from WWII Robert Edsel's new book, "Remember Us: American Sacrifice, Dutch Freedom, and a Forever Promise Forged in World War II"...
'A Healing Time': Honor Flight Brings Veterans of Vietnam, Korea and World War II to DC The trip was organized by Inland Northwest Honor Flight, which charters a plane from Spokane to the nation's capital each...
The Gold Star Mom Who Rallied America After Losing 5 Sons During World War II Despite the largest loss of life sustained by one family in the U.S. Navy's history, Alleta and Thomas were determined to...
Secret Recordings Show President Roosevelt Debating Military Desegregation with Civil Rights Leaders More than a year before Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt heard arguments from the civil rights leaders of the...
What 'D-Day' Actually Stands For What the "D" in D-Day actually stands for has been a source of debate almost from the time that the Allies first landed on...
Oldest Known Pearl Harbor Survivor Dies at 106 Vaughn Drake Jr., an esteemed Central Kentuckian believed to be the oldest survivor of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, died...
Georgia WWII Veteran, 100 Years Old, to Receive French Legion of Honor Alan Kinder will travel to Europe to commemorate the Battle of the Bulge, the major German counteroffensive that ended in...
A US Navy Captain Ordered a Military Funeral for a Kamikaze Pilot During WWII. Here's Why Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a U.S. naval captain ordered his battleship to hold a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot...
Class-Action Suit over Limits on Combat-Related Disability Pay Goes Before Supreme Court The Supreme Court will hear arguments in Soto v. United States, a case that challenges a six-year limit on back pay for...
Veterans Reunite with 'Precious Cargo' 50 Years After the Fall of Saigon One woman's quest to say ‘thank you’ led to the colonel who ran her refugee camp and the aircraft maintainer who may have...
48 Hours with Marines and Soldiers on the US Southern Border Amid President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, military assets and personnel are increasingly being relied upon for a...
'Everything Is on the Table': Army Eyeing Expansion of Privatized Barracks As part of a pilot program, construction is expected to begin this summer on a new privately managed facility at Fort Irwin...
Army Suspends Fort McCoy's First Female Commander Amid Trump Portrait Display Controversy The incident, which sparked a wave of right-wing criticism, centered on the base's chain of command wall display -- a common...
![](http://images01.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-04/new%201945%20podcast%20WWII%20museum%201200.jpg?itok=z-qpgYff ""1945: The End of WWII" start streaming on April 17, 2025. (National WWII Museum)")
![Marines at the border wall](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-04/staff-border-wall-marines-wire-1800.jpg?itok=a3dIOHTu "Marines were deployed here to reinforce barriers during President Donald Trump's first term, but they were not armed with the long guns their Guardian Angels carry now, NPR reported. An old policy from the very unit these Marines come from said Guardian Angels must watch over their units' security with an "ambush mentality." (Drew F. Lawrence/Military.com)")
