Military History

In 1990, President George H.W. Bush named actor, bodybuilder and seven-time Mr. Olympia Arnold Schwarzenegger as chairman of...

On Jan. 10, 1968, Private 1st Class Clarence Sasser was part of a reconnaissance mission in southern Vietnam when his...

The current version of the House defense policy bill has a measure that would award "atomic veterans" with a service medal.

The Seabees were created during World War II, because the Navy needed construction workers who could fight back.

Leap Day has a long history -- it's not something we all just arbitrarily decided to do one day.

More than 100 years after they were convicted of mutiny and murder and hanged for the 1917 Houston Riot, 17 Black soldiers...

Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal spent his life proving his now-famous photo wasn't staged.

Chivalry wasn't dead in 1938 when Nazi tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia. It lived on in at least one man: Josef Menčík, also...

From D-Day to the crossing of the Rhine, the Army's top-secret 23rd Headquarters Special Troops unit used inflatable tanks...

Pop-Tart creator William "Bill" Post was also an Army Air Forces veteran who served in occupied Japan after World War II. And...