US Navy Battle Flags: A Visual Guide The Navy's tradition of flying battle flags is as old as America itself. Here's an (incomplete) guide to the service's best...
80 Years After D-Day, the Family of a Black World War II Combat Medic Receives His Medal for Heroism A Black combat medic who treated 200 troops during the harrowing invasion of Normandy during World War II is being honored...
The Infamous Golden Guns of the Most Notorious Deposed Dictators Money. Weapons. The power to make enemies disappear. Dictators seem to have it all. Some of them even take all three of those...
Parachutists Commemorate 80th Anniversary of Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands About 11,500 Allied troops died in the nine days of Operation Market Garden, more than than during the D-Day landings in...
The World War II Fighter Ace Behind the Navy's Blue Angels For the rest of his life, the Blue Angel pilots who came after him viewed Voris with reverence -- and with good reason.
5 Films and TV Shows About Operation Market Garden, Recommended by a War Historian Here are five films and TV shows that explore the origins, impact and aftermath of the allies’ September 1944 strategic...
The Time an Army Bomber Crashed into the Empire State Building During WWII The crash, which caused about $1 million in damage (roughly $17.5 million in 2024), represented the first time that an...
Dutch Adopt US War Graves to Harbor Memories of the Country's Liberation 80 Years Ago In the rolling hills of the southern Netherlands, locals have vowed to never forget the American and other Allied soldiers...
This Marine Corps Memorial Honors the Fallen from 9/11 Despite our nation's pledge to "never forget," years have passed, leaving the memory of 9/11 faded for some and nonexistent...
A Navy Veteran Revolutionized Dune Buggy Racing After Serving in World War II Bruce Meyers changed the racing game after beating the record for the Baja 1000 by five hours in a self-made car.
Pentagon Again Expanding Military Border Zones, This Time in Arizona The newest military zone in Arizona -- the fourth border zone created by the Trump administration -- will encompass 140 miles...
Football Dreams Led to 'Fat Boy Flight' and an Over-Forty-Year Air Force Career In 1971, as a high school senior and captain of the football team, I assumed a college athletic scholarship was in my future...
US Contractors Say Their Colleagues Are Firing Live Ammo as Palestinians Seek Food in Gaza Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal...
Tensions Are Rising Between Russia and Azerbaijan. Why Is This Happening Now? Deaths of ethnic Azerbaijanis rounded up by police for decades-old murders in a Russian city. The crash of an Azerbaijan...
Army Creating New Artificial Intelligence-Focused Occupational Specialty and Officer Field Service planners are moving to establish a new enlisted military occupational specialty focused on artificial intelligence...