The General the Military Tried to Silence: Billy Mitchell and America’s First Modern National Security Whistleblower Billy Mitchell, a World War I air power commander, warned battleships were obsolete and future wars would be decided in the...
World War II Pilot Who Lived Through Four Plane Crashes Dies at 103 Reginald "Crash" Harrison lived through four plane crashes in WWII and lived to talk about it. He died in Canada recently at...
The One-Eyed Canadian Sniper Who Single-Handedly Liberated a Dutch City From 1,000 Germans in WWII A 23-year-old Canadian sniper wearing an eye patch walked into the Dutch city of Zwolle just after midnight on April 14, 1945...
The Japanese Submariner Who Became America's First WWII Prisoner After Pearl Harbor Sergeant David Akui walked along Waimanalo Beach on the morning of Dec. 8, 1941, and spotted what he thought was a sea turtle...
Pearl Harbor Memories Still Fresh for World War II Veterans While America honors Pearl Harbor 84 years ago, World War II veterans E. Paul Ball and Luther Hendricks say the haunting...
JROTC History Project Uncovers School’s Unique World War II Background Curiosity over WWII memorial banners turned into a rewarding history project for JROTC students in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Death by Firing Squad: Eddie Slovik Became the Only U.S. Soldier Executed for Desertion in WWII Eddie Slovik made a series of decisions that turned him into the only American soldier executed for desertion since the Civil...
Soon no Pearl Harbor Survivors Will be Alive. People Turn to Other Ways to Learn About the Bombing Only 12 are still alive — all centenarians — and this year none is able to make the pilgrimage to Hawaii to mark the event.
Long Wait Finally Over: World War II Airman Returns Home Airman Clifford Keeney was shot down over Germany in 1944. His family waited eight decades for his remains to finally be...
Northern Ireland's Oldest World War II Veteran Turns 107 Norman Irwin, Northern Ireland's oldest citizen, was recently honored by the British Army after celebrating his 107th...
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://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-12/harrison_1_.jpg?itok=pko9ZZps "Reginald "Crash" Harrison was a heavily decorated WWII veteran. (Saskatoon StarPhoenix)")
