The Civilian Who Fought Back Against Japanese Fighters at Pearl Harbor with a Crane It's believed Walters' crane helped sailors from the Pennsylvania shoot down at least eight to 10 attacking fighters.
Did Napoleon Really Fire at the Pyramids? A Historian Explains the Truth Behind the Legends of Ridley Scott’s Biopic Director Ridley Scott is not a historian and presumably wants to entertain rather than to enlighten. But the problem of...
How Four Nuns Became the First Native American Women to Serve in the US Military Today, American Indians and Alaska Natives serve in the Armed Forces at five times the national average — with the women...
'The Metal Detector' Reunites Descendants of a B-17 Crew Shot Down in World War II "The Metal Detector" began airing on PBS and on PBS.org starting on Nov. 11, 2023.
This World War II Vet's Renowned Novel on Japanese Samurai to Become Epic TV Series James Clavell had some of the worst luck during his military service, but he would later use all of it to shape his future...
Denzel Washington Will Terrorize Rome as Legendary General Hannibal Barca There are countless movies about or set in the Roman Empire, but it sometimes feels like Hollywood forgot about Hannibal...
More Than 100 Years Later, Army Overturns Convictions of 110 Black Soldiers After 1917 Houston Riots In a ceremony at the Buffalo Soldier Museum in Houston, Army officials said that historians found many "irregularities" in...
Here's Your First Look at 'Masters of the Air' Our first glimpse at Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg's long-awaited, highly anticipated companion series to "Band of Brothers"...
The Only US Navy Warship Authorized to Fly a Foreign Flag at Sea Commissioned in 2001, the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill was named for the famous prime minister who...
Why the Marine Corps Birthday Ball Doesn't Actually Happen on its Real Birthday The Marine Corps actually has two birthdays: one in November and one in July.
Coast Guard Reservist Wins Landmark Supreme Court Case Over Pay Disparities for Federal Workers In a 5-4 decision, the justices said Nick Feliciano, a Coast Guard petty officer who was called to active duty from 2012 to...
Senators Voice 'Deep Concerns' About Trump's Pick for Air Force Under Secretary Democratic senators voiced serious concerns about a former Former Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier's political social media posts...
'This Is Going to Be a Challenge': Service Officials Detail Fallout from Civilian Resignations Pushed by Trump The military services are poised to lose thousands of their civilian employees to the Trump administration's push for them to...
New England Patriots' Charter Plane Flies to Guantanamo Bay A New England Patriots plane made a trip to and from Guantánamo Bay, public flight tracking data shows.
Trump & Co’s Polygraph Pandemonium "Multiple studies over the years have shown not only that polygraphs are hardly foolproof when it comes to vetting ...