Military History

Abbie Burgess, the lighthouse keeper's daughter, kept the light on in the midst of the storm.

While preparing an A-6E Intruder for takeoff at night, 21-year-old flight deck crewman John Bridges found himself pulled into...

2nd Class Gunner's Mate Millard Simmons was on a nearby ship when the USS William D. Porter was sunk by the Japanese during...

Lt. Col. Harriet West Waddy was one of only two Black women to attain the rank of major in the Women's Army Corps during...

Carl Elmer Jenkins recalled the plot to kill Castro in fine detail, laying to rest any lingering historical controversy about...

The "Rosie the Riveter" campaign from the Office of War Information was determined to get more women to work and free men to...

When the Korean War started, some of the old "dry" politicians and activists were still around, fighting against the evils of...

The atomic age formally began at exactly 5:30 a.m. (Mountain time) on July 16, 1945. At that moment, the Manhattan Project...

The Amish are likely the only bearded men you’ll see whose mustache areas are clean shaven — and the U.S. military is the...

The history of bicycles in the service coincides with a shift in how Black soldiers would serve their country.