How the First Female Pilot to Die on Active Duty with the US Military Cultivated Her Love of Flying Women Airforce Service Pilots, created in August 1943 after WAFS and WFTD merged, flew at 126 military bases, handling 80% of...
80 Years After D-Day, a World War II Veteran Is Getting Married Near Beaches Where US Troops Landed It will be Harold Terens’ fourth D-Day celebration in France.
Thieves Are Stripping Sunken World War II Shipwrecks of Their Valuable Steel In 2017, a civilian search team discovered the wreck of the USS Indianapolis in a 600-mile swathe of the Pacific Ocean. The...
How a Michigan Beach Town Became Home to a Highly-Decorated WWII Submarine An 82-year-old piece of storied World War II history has called the Muskegon Lake channel home since 1987, thanks to strong...
Harvey Keitel Stars in a New Adaptation of the Best-Selling Book 'Tattooist of Auschwitz' An upcoming television adaptation might help make up for what the source material lacked when "The Tattooist of Auschwitz"...
VA Secretary Intervenes After Top Officer Orders Iconic World War II Kiss Photo Removed for Being 'Non-Consensual' The VA's head health operations officer sent a memo to regional health directors in February saying the photo depicted non...
10th Mountain Soldiers Honor Legendary WWII Predecessors by Skiing 24 Miles in Their Tracks 10 soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division — now based at Fort Drum in western New York — undertook a 15-hour backcountry...
Operation Gunnerside: The Daring Norwegian Commando Raid that Ended Nazi Atomic Dreams Without Firing a Shot Neither the United States nor Germany would end up completing an atomic bomb while the war in Europe raged, but the Allies...
7 Badass Women Who Made Military History Women have blazed a trail of innovation and made military history. They have been fighting and sacrificing for this country...
7 Important Things to Know About the First US Navy Seabees The Seabees were created during World War II, because the Navy needed construction workers who could fight back.
How Marines Took an Airfield in the Philippines in a Show Against China On April 30, three combined littoral reconnaissance teams made up of roughly 30 U.S. and Philippine Marines each, flown by...
Army Eliminates Online Training Requirement for Noncommissioned Officers, Saying It's Too Burdensome The Army has eliminated a significant part of its online training for enlisted troops -- a learning program that has drawn...
For Decades, Recipients Were Honored with Purple Hearts Made During WWII. This Company Now Forges New Medals. For decades, recipients of the Purple Heart were honored with medals that had been forged during World War II, leftover stock...
Air Force Pilot Who Died After Aircraft Ejection Seat Misfire Identified by the Service Capt. John Robertson, an instructor pilot from the 80th Operations Support Squadron at Sheppard Air Force Base, was injured...
Must-Pass Defense Bill Includes 4.5% Military Pay Raise on Top of 15% Increase for Junior Enlisted Troops The recommendation from the House Armed Services Committee in its draft version of the National Defense Authorization Act, or...