Military History

Lt. Josephine "Mama Josie" Nesbit made sure all of her military nurses were taken care of after the Japanese attacked the...

By the end of World War I, more than 500 soldiers were part of an effort that would influence the future of American Signals...

Gen. Maxwell Reid Thurman's career encompassed most of what the Army has to offer, including an ROTC scholarship, an...

On the morning of Aug. 20, 1961, Col. Glover S. Johns Jr. telephoned the White House with the news that the first American...

From his early days as an ensign to his retirement as president of the Naval Board of Inspection and Survey, Vice Adm. John...

Soldier Athan Robinson's unit was in its second hour of a patrol when it happened upon some South Korean soldiers taking a...

The Siege of Vicksburg, Battle of Vienna and Battle of Sadr City are among the most notable sieges in military history.

The USS Nautilus, launched in 1954, became the world's first nuclear-powered submarine.

Army Air Force pilot Hubert Mark Altvater flew during the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944, and later was a prisoner of war...

The U.S. Air Force Art Program began in 1950 with the transfer from the U.S. Army Air Corps of some 800 works of art...