Fort Hood Steps In After Shutdown Halts WWII Veteran’s Military Funeral Florencio Davila, a World War II veteran, died recently at age 99. His dying wish was to be buried with full military honors...
How a Former Waffen-SS Officer Became an American War Hero Buried at Arlington National Cemetery A white granite headstone in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery bears a name that sounds American: Larry Allan Thorne...
Must Watch Movies To Catch Up On During Deployment Sometimes, the right movie reminds you why you serve and who’s waiting when you get home. Long deployments come with...
Lost for 82 Years, World War II Soldier’s Dog Tag Returns to Family Lost for 82 years in the woods of England, a Georgia family is finally reunited with their father's World War II dog tag.
How AI Cracked an 84-Year WWII Mystery — And What it Means for Future Warfare For more than eight decades, one of the Holocaust's most haunting images remained shrouded in mystery. The photograph shows a...
How Pigeons Helped U.S. Navy Blimps Hunt German U-Boats in World War II The U.S. Navy's use of pigeons began decades before World War II, but the birds found their most critical mission during the...
Operation Ivory Soap: The WWII Experiment That Created Modern Helicopter Combat Missions Between June 15 and July 29, 1945, six Army Air Forces pilots flying experimental Sikorsky helicopters evacuated between 75...
WWII Nurse, Age 100, Still Fighting For Veteran Recognition Agnes Lowe may have turned 100 but she’s still got work to do.  She’s advocating for long-overdue recognition. Lowe is...
This World War II POW Endured More Than 50 Years in Captivity When Anna Gabulya saw a television report of a POW’s return to Hungary a half-century after he served during World War II...
The Last of the Greatest Generation: What America Loses as Its WWII Veterans Fade Away World War II will soon transition from living memory to documented history, with VA projections from earlier this year...
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...