Dick Van Dyke's Entertainment Career Started in a World War II Latrine Van Dyke has never been ashamed to admit that cowardice led to his entertainment career.
6 Things You May Not Know About the End of the Civil War To celebrate the end of a conflict that killed more than 600,000 troops, let's remember just how the war finally ended.
How Disobeyed Orders Led to the Largest Confederate Surrender of the Civil War The Confederate army under Joseph E. Johnston was the largest army to surrender to the Union during the Civil War.
'A Republic of Scoundrels' Shows Readers Not All Founding Fathers Were Worthy of Praise Most of the Founding Fathers risked their lives fighting the British, worked tirelessly to unite the colonies or made...
From Building Buicks to Bombers During WWII As the U.S. geared up for war and ordered an auto manufacturing slowdown, GM had to reinvent itself.
A New Book Details the Life of the Deadliest Sniper in Marine Corps History Chuck Mawhinney's closest friends had no idea the Marine Corps veteran was a Vietnam War legend who holds the record for the...
There's a Good Reason Why 'Oppenheimer' Is Christopher Nolan's Longest Movie Ever "Oppenheimer" is Nolan's autobiographical adaptation of authors Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin's 2005 book "American...
Why the First Nuclear Sub Had to Stop for Auto Parts Before a Secret Mission Normally, crossing an ocean wouldn't be a problem for any ship or submarine, but the Arctic Ocean was covered in vast, dense...
'Ducks' Weren't Built for Tourists. They Played a Crucial Role in WWII. You've probably seen them hauling tourists around the streets of America's biggest cities, but the wartime history of the...
A Soviet Spy Saved Stalin, Churchill and FDR from a Nazi Assassination Plot Gevork Vartanian was the Soviet intelligence officer from Armenia who discovered the Nazis' plan to kill the Allied...
Musk, Ramaswamy Proposal to Slash Spending Could Include VA Medical Services Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy confirmed that they plan to target "unauthorized" federal spending, a category that includes...
Coast Guard Set to Receive New Icebreaker by Year's End, Bolstering US Presence in Arctic The need for ships with icebreaking capabilities is growing as China and Russia increase their presence in the Arctic...
Marine Corps F-35C Was Used in Combat for First Time to Strike Houthis, Military Confirms Traveling at speeds of 1,200 mph, the F-35C can carry Joint Direct Attack Munitions, or JDAMs, air-to-air missiles and other...
Military Diversity Is Not the Problem "The main reason for concern about the U.S. military and its performance has to do with the variety of U.S. commitments and...
MacDill Airman Gets 5 Years Of Probation in 'Undead Apes' Blockchain Fraud U.S. District Judge William Jung sentenced Devin Rhoden to five years’ probation, a reflection of Rhoden’s substantial...
![](http://images02.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2023-06/1time%20dick%20van%20dyke%20show%201200.jpg?itok=4t1PpJ3I "From "The Dick Van Dyke Show." (CBS Enterprises)")
![](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2023-06/mil%20end%20of%20civil%20war%201200.jpg?itok=GmA8YlBK ""Peace at the End of the Civil War," by Allyn Cox. Painted to look like a bas-relief, the scene is part of the Frieze of American History at the Capitol Rotunda. (Architect of the Capitol)")
![](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2023-06/1time%20oppenheimer%20poster%201200.jpg?itok=wmIntVQ2 ""Oppenheimer" hits theaters June 21, 2023. (Universal Pictures)")
