Military History

Officer candidate Sylvester Benjamin Butler writes to his mother about his experiences during World War I.

Capt. William Sherman Vanaman provides a first-person account to his family about the sinking of the USS Maine.

For Air Force Capt. Mary Klinker, two posthumous medals were awarded because she worked to save very young lives -- and, in...

Alene B. Duerk, who was director of the Navy Nurse Corps, was the first woman ever to be promoted to the rank of admiral.

Private First Class Michael J. Horton recalls his trip from Travis Air Force Base, California, to his deployment in Vietnam.

The military uses a lot of unique terminology, some of which bleeds into the civilian world.

Once universally accepted as the most reviled haircut on Earth, the COVID-19 pandemic has resurrected the style.

Born in Germany to Jewish parents, Ernest Strauss got out of Nazi Germany and came to the United States, where he joined the...

Dr. Simon V. Ward Jr., who once was torpedoed twice on his birthday, later joined the U.S. Navy Medical Corps.

U.S. Navy Chief Henry Clyde Daniels details Pearl Harbor and its aftermath during World War II in his diary.