Military History

The current version of the House defense policy bill has a measure that would award "atomic veterans" with a service medal.

The Seabees were created during World War II, because the Navy needed construction workers who could fight back.

Leap Day has a long history -- it's not something we all just arbitrarily decided to do one day.

More than 100 years after they were convicted of mutiny and murder and hanged for the 1917 Houston Riot, 17 Black soldiers...

Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal spent his life proving his now-famous photo wasn't staged.

Chivalry wasn't dead in 1938 when Nazi tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia. It lived on in at least one man: Josef Menčík, also...

From D-Day to the crossing of the Rhine, the Army's top-secret 23rd Headquarters Special Troops unit used inflatable tanks...

Pop-Tart creator William "Bill" Post was also an Army Air Forces veteran who served in occupied Japan after World War II. And...

The Cuban Missile Crisis was two decades in the rearview, but in the early 1980s, Cold War tensions between the United States...

As the U.S. and its partners involved in the International Space Station work through another possible down-to-the-wire...