Military History

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

Richard Nott Antrim was the executive officer of the destroyer Pope, sunk several weeks earlier during the Battle of the Java...

There was one major problem with bombing the camp: The technology for precision bombing didn't exist.

On Dec. 29, 1890, troops under then-Col. James W. Forsyth's command were ordered to aim their guns on Wounded Knee village in...

Susan and Anna Warner were Sunday School teachers to generations of West Point cadets.

Douglas Hegdahl was a young seaman apprentice when he was captured during the Vietnam War and imprisoned at "the Hanoi Hilton...

Ellsworth Wallace Haynes shares his stories of serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II.

The Houston Race Riot of 1917 involved an all-Black battalion from the 24th Infantry Regiment and resulted in the execution...

The basis of Murphy's Law is that no matter how idiot-proof something is, there will always be an idiot who rises to the...

Bernard Law Montgomery's maxim of "training, training and more training," combined with a penchant for organization, helped...