Italy Once Stole Secret American Intelligence Codes Which Nearly Made Britain Lose WWII Every morning over breakfast in early 1942, infamous German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel received a classified intelligence...
The American Destroyer That Sacrificed Itself to Turn Back Japan’s Battleship Fleet at Leyte Gulf Taffy 3—consisting of six escort carriers, three destroyers, and four destroyer escorts—was there to cover troops storming...
The American Senator and Three Tanks That Took on Rommel Before Operation Torch In the summer of 1942, the British Eighth Army was losing the war in North Africa. Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps had smashed...
‘We Were Behind Barbed Wire’: George Takei on Fighting for a Country That Imprisoned Their Families In a powerful new talk in Tokyo, Star Trek legend George Takei revisits his childhood behind barbed wire in U.S. World War II...
The Army Bombers That Attacked the Japanese Fleet and Helped Turn the Tide at Midway During the Battle of Midway, a crippled U.S. Army B-26 bomber flew so close over Japan’s flagship Akagi that its crew...
World War II Veteran Celebrates 99th Birthday with High School Diploma Dominic Bersani, a World War II Navy veteran, celebrated his 99th birthday recently by getting his high school diploma and...
America’s Secret WWII OSS Mission in Vietnam to Arm Ho Chi Minh Against Japan In the final months of World War II, a small team of American commandos parachuted into the mountains of northern Vietnam to...
From Crete to Normandy: Why Allied Paratroopers Succeeded Where the Nazis Failed When Germany overran Greece in 1941, one last Allied stronghold in the region remained: the island of Crete. With the Italian...
The Only WWII Land Battle Fought on American Soil: The Forgotten Fight for Alaska When most people think of the Pacific Theater of World War II, they envision tropical islands, heat, and jungle combat...
This Army Pilot Proved Airplanes Could Sink Battleships and Predicted Pearl Harbor — He Was Fired For It In 1921, Army Brig. Gen. Billy Mitchell proved airplanes could sink battleships. Three years later, he predicted Japan would...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
![](http://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-10/decryption.jpg?itok=-Okhv_iU "An Enigma decryption machine, called a "bombe." Decryption machines like this were used by both the Axis and Allies to break enemy codes and access vital intelligence during WWII. (U.S. Air Force photo)")
