Purple Heart Medal’s Owner Identified as ‘a Man’s Man’ Who Fought in WWII In the final push to defeat Nazi Germany during World War II, Edward Gorski Jr. was trying to shield himself inside a foxhole...
Bob Fernandez, 100-Year-Old Pearl Harbor Survivor, Dies Peacefully at Home 83 Years After Bombing Fernandez was a 17-year-old sailor on board the USS Curtiss during the Dec. 7, 1941, attack that propelled the U.S. into...
101st Airborne Division Troops Return to Bastogne to Mark 80th Anniversary of Battle of the Bulge The siege of Bastogne was lifted on Dec. 26, 1944, when a tank column from the 4th Armored Division of then-Lt. Gen. George...
A Chinese Filmmaker Remembers Victims of a WWII Tragedy in 'The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru' The sinking of the Lisbon Maru was a tragedy that got lost in the seemingly endless loss of life that was the Pacific Theater...
80 Years Ago, a Historic Army-Navy Game Captivated a Nation During World War II The 1944 Army-Navy Game pitted the top two ranked teams in college football that season and raised more than $58 million for...
‘The Six Triple Eight’ Is a Powerful Tribute to the Army’s First All-Black, All-Woman Battalion The ugly job of sorting mail was meant to demean the women of the 6888 Central Postal Directory Battalion during World War II...
Descendant of Last Native Leader of Alaska Island Demands Japanese Reparations for 1942 Invasion The great-granddaughter of the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea believes Japan should pay more...
2 Pearl Harbor Survivors, Ages 104 and 102, Return to Hawaii to Honor Those Killed in 1941 Attack Military historian J. Michael Wenger has estimated there were some 87,000 military personnel on Oahu on the day of the attack...
The Little-Known War Stories Behind Your Favorite Christmas Songs Criscrossing decades, continents and conflict, we’ve collected some of the most intriguing stories behind a variety of...
Japan to Exhume Remains of About 1,000 WWII Dead on Peleliu A mass burial site where the remains of Japanese soldiers were interred by the U.S. military on Peleliu Island, a fierce...
Trump Orders 1,500 Active-Duty Troops to Border Ahead of Pentagon Security Plan Deadline It was not immediately clear what units and service branches would be tapped for the deployment, but the announcement comes...
Trailblazing Coast Guard Commandant Fired by Trump Administration Adm. Linda Fagan, the first woman to serve in the Coast Guard's top job, was relieved following the swearing-in ceremony for...
Air Force Officer Who Advocated for Women in Leadership Roles Removed from Command Col. Julie Sposito-Salceies was relieved from the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam unit by Gen. Kevin Schneider, commander of...
Air Force Groups that Advocated for Beard Policies, Better Body Armor Are Gutted by Trump Directive Air Force and Space Force groups that helped create policy and improve the quality of life for women, minorities and LGBTQ+...
Trump Administration Directs All Federal Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Staff Be Put on Leave President Donald Trump's administration has moved to end affirmative action in federal contracting and directed that all...
![Two Pearl Harbor survivors](http://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2024-12/AP%20Pearl%20Harbor%20survivors%201200x800.jpg?itok=dglacgQR "Pearl Harbor survivors, Ken Stevens, 102, of Powers, Oregon, second from the left, and Ira "Ike" Schab, 104, of Beaverton, Oregon, wait before the start of the 83rd Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day ceremony, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024, in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Mengshin Lin)")
