WWII Soldiers Posthumously Receive Purple Heart Medals 79 Years After Fatal Plane Crash The Army's failure to recognize all 31 soldiers with medals may be attributed to administrative oversight in the waning hours...
Russia Celebrates Victory in World War II as Putin Accuses the West of Fueling Global Conflicts Even though few veterans of what Russia calls the Great Patriotic War are still alive 79 years after Berlin fell to the Red...
A Holocaust Survivor Will Mark That History Differently After the Horrors of Oct. 7 Holocaust Remembrance Day, marked on the anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, has traditionally been a...
Why the Allies Forced Nazi Germany to Surrender Twice to End World War II The Allied forces of World War II were more than ready to accept a Nazi surrender, but when they realized they might have...
The Final Flight of Lou Conter, Last Survivor of the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor Long before he became the last survivor of the battleship USS Arizona, Lou Conter was a hunter.
Dodge Power Wagon: How the US Military Gave America 4x4 Trucks What does your pickup have in common with a gun-slinging Dodge from World War II?
World War II Veteran and Director John Ford Is the Next Subject of TCM's 'Plot Thickens' Podcast Ford's career, good and bad, in war and peace, is the subject of "Decoding John Ford," the next installment of TCM's "The...
'I Will Tell No War Stories': A Writer Uncovers His Father's Hidden World War II History When Pincus Mansfield settled down after the war, got married and had children, he never talked about his experiences and his...
Before VE Day, This Soldier Wrote Home on Hitler's Stationery The Million Letters Campaign seeks to find and preserve at least one million articles of correspondence from every U.S...
100-Year-Old British D-Day Veteran Dies Before He Can Honor Fallen Comrades One More Time British army veteran Bill Gladden, who survived a glider landing on D-Day and a bullet that tore through his ankle a few days...
Top Enlisted Leader at Air Force Special Operations Command Fired, Facing Investigation Chief Master Sgt. Anthony Green, who advised on the readiness, training and quality of life of enlisted air commandos, was...
Army to Soldiers: Reenlist by Monday if You Want to Claim Incentives While it is not unusual for the Army to curtail incentives after meeting its retention goals, the troops were given little...
Former Air Force Commander Punished with 21 Days' Confinement, Forfeiture of Pay After Guilty Plea Col. Christopher Meeker, the former commander of Wright-Patterson's 88th Air Base Wing, was sentenced Tuesday evening after...
New Air Force Academy Mission Statement Drops Educate, Adds a Different Focus The Air Force Academy has rolled out a new mission statement that drops the word "educate" and adds in a focus on winning...
The Army Is Getting Rid of Athletic Trainers The Army is set to phase out its unit-level athletic trainers -- civilian specialists tasked with providing immediate care...
